
Qass. 
Book. 



THE GREAT 



ENCYCLIC EPISTLE, 



DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS; 



The Pirst of which was occasioned by the Death of President 
Abraham Lincoln, 



AND 



The Second by the Capture of Jefferson Davis : 

Both being Preparatory to the Work, with the Title of the 

Manuscript : 

'^THE HEAVENLY MISSION TO ALL GOVERNMENTS 
AND ALL NATIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF 
CHRIST'S PEACEABLE REIGN ON EARTH. WRIT- 
TEN BY ANDREW B. Sm6lNIKAR, REPRESENTA- 
TIVE OF THIS MISSION, WHICH HAD BEEN DE- 
CLARED AND CONFIRMED BY A LONG CHAIN OF 
SIGNS AND WONDERS ACCORDING TO PROPHE^ 
CIES, AS THOSE WILL BE CONVINCED WHO STUDY 
THE WHOLE WITH DUE ATTENTION." 




BALTIMORE: 

PRINTED BY S. S. MILLS & CO 
No. 24 S. Calvert Street. 

1865. 



FIRST P»A.RT 

OF THE 

GREAT ENCYCLIC EPISTLE. 



THIS PART WAS OCCASIONED BY THE MURDER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

Whereas, In a few months I will be seventy years old, I address, in the 
Spirit of Jesus Christ, those who are approaching to, or have already ex- 
ceeded my age, as my beloved brethren — and those who are much young- 
er, as my dear sons, beseeching you all, to read both parts of this Epistle, 
with all possible attention, and not to judge of any sentence which is not 
according to your taste, till you peruse thoroughly this entire pamphlet, 
with great zeal to know the truth and to act accordingly. This was my 
desire from early youth, to study for my own and the welfare of my fellow 
men. I have collected great Treasures of Truth, which I will carry into 
eternal life, of which I communicate as much to my fellow-men as they 
are capable and ready to receive. 

This pamphlet contains a narrative of facts, according to my best know- 
ledge, and hints as to the causes by which they have been produced. A1-* 
though you may not see into these just as I do, I warn you at the begin- 
ning, not to condemn any sentence with which you may not be pleased, 
until you study thoroughly this entire pamphlet. Then you will see deeper 
also into the causes, and better understand every sentence in connexion 
with the whole; and you will come nearer to union with mc and with those 
Invisible Agents by whom I am assisted and directed for the fulfilment of 
the grandest Promises to mankind — and better comprehend and digest the 
contents of this pamphlet. 

Christ's Peaceable Keign, (as we have expressed on the title pages of 
Beveral of our preceding publications, and which will become evident to 
students of the volume for which we have prepared manuscript, and to 
which a general attention, through this Epistle, is sought,) will be the 
Universal Kepublic of Truth and Kighteousness. When Monarchs learn 
in the volume the proceedings in the Real Republic — ^es/? if Wtc«— public 
affair — to develop Truth for the welfare of all men, they will powerfully 
co-operate for establishing the Real Republic, and will glorify God, who 
is made manifest in our Mission, to draw Rulers and Nations from the ex- 
isting Babylon into Christ's Reign of Harmony and Peace, in which 
Rulers will have most excellent occupations for their own and the eternal 
life of the people. But in Babylon they themselves are running and 
drawing their fellow men into death. 

After having published already from A. D. 1838 to 1842, five volumes 
of developments of the mysteries which must be understood for Christ's 
Peace on Earth, and after, at different occasions, pamphlets and volumes, 
Governments and Nations, to whose Representatives we applied for co- 
operation to commence the glorious New Era of Harmony and Peace, did 
not heed our applications. This New Era is commonly, although impro- 
perly, called the Millennium, concerning which there are all kinds of su- 
perstitious and absurd notions. But all Parties and Sects have been re- 
luctant to examine what the Spirit of Truth has developed, in this respect, 
by virtue of our Mission, and confirmed by superabundance of Signs and 
Wonders according to prophecies. I understood Divine Economy as far as 
was necessary for the continuance of my Mission. Governments and Na- 
tions were left in their pernicious course on account of matters not having 
yet been so far developed as to commence a general movement for the ac- 
complishment of the grandest promises to mankind. At length I have 



prepared, at my advanced age, manuscripts in Latin, containing what 
should be sent to IMshops of all countries — and in German and English, 
what is of great consequence to this and future generations. But the man- 
uscript, with the title on the title page of this Epistle, is the last of my 
manuscripts ; I wrote it in English, to be published — the sooner the better 
— first, in the English, and then in other languages, as Messengers could 
be found to translate, publish and disseminate it as far as possible, — and 
for this purpose I am now translating it into German, when manifold oc- 
cupations allow me to do so. 

The last manuscript should be published first, because it contains a com- 
pendium of memorable events which have been already published in my 
former volumes, (and on account of their circulation being hindered, the 
most dreadful consequences have been experienced by Nations;) and events 
which have not yet been published, but which spread unexpected light up- 
on those which have been already published, so that we trust that the A- 
merican and other Nations will be aroused to co-operation to realize what 
is most needed, although it was most neglected, and' the neglect has pro- 
duced an awful detriment in the real temporal and eternal welfare of Nations. 

The contents of the volume, for a general circulation of which, in different 
languages, I am preparing readers of this Epistle, translations of which 
should be procured for instruction of all Nations, may be in the shortest 
Planner expressed as follows : 

In the "introduction," in the first place, a brief report is given — how I 
was directed in my early youth to study books of great consequence, so as 
to learn to comprehend them well. That report is then applied to my vol- 
ume, which should be published by readers of this Epistle, and which, as 
you may judge, after having thoroughly studied this Epistle, is for the 
common welfare of Nations, at this time, the most important volume. — 
This occasioned a brief view regarding the real value of the Bible and of 
the essential causes that the Bible was so abused; that instead of all Chris- 
tians being united in Peace, they have produced quarrels and fightings, 
which are witnessed by the ecclesiastical history and by the testimony of 
this generation — and there are hundreds of Sects in the States of North 
America, if we number their divisions and sub-divisions, which will be a- 
bolished and the true Union be cemented and spread on the globe, when 
that which has been disclosed by virtue of our Mission, will be generally 
made known and put in practice. You should keep always in mind what 
is in the title of the volume on the title page of this Epistle, that I am on- 
ly a Representative of the Mission with which those who will comprehend 
and digest this our writing, will be united. 

Our Mission requires such deep insight and knowledge of the Roman 
Catholic Church, from which Protestant Churches have taken more or less 
of their dogmas, which they have modified, each in their own way, that 
according to prophecies the Representative of Messengers for the introduc- 
tion of Christ's Peaceable Reign on Earth had to come from the Roman 
Catholic Church. In the first part of the manuscript, which should be 
printed in a volume for which I am preparing readers of this Epistle, I 
give a brief sketch of the wonderful ways in which my Heavenly Guardian 
was preparing me from my childhood, for my present Mission, about which 
neither I nor those who had influence upon me, knew any thing. But I 
had always an anxious desire to know truth, for my own and the welfare 
of my fellowmen, and to act according to my best knowledge. And my 
Heavenly Director has procured from my early youth the best chance to 
satisfy my desire, and has performed manifold Signs and Wonders, which 
have not been understood, till at length, in my present Mission, I com- 
menced to understand them. 

When time arrived to study the branches for my future profession, I 



thouglit that I could do most good to my fellowmen, by studying Theolo- 
gy, and penetrating as deep into its mysteries, as circumstances would al- 
low. I studied and acted according to my determination, and was ordain- 
ed Priest, A. D. 1819. 1 have united my experience as Priest with zeal- 
ous continuation of my investigations in the branches of Divinity, and I 
was laboring particularly to penetrate, as deep as possible, into the myste- 
ries of the Bible ; and my Heavenly director gave manifold Signs, that 
iny labour would at length bring good fruit for the welfare of Nations. 

After having been six years Priest of my native Diocese,- Laibach, in 
Blyria, my Master directed that for the continuation of my theological in- 
vestigations I should unite with the Monks of the Benedictine Order, in 
the Monastery of St. Paul in Carinthia, — and after two years of investi- 
gation in t?lie Jewish, Heathen and Christian antiquities, in the library of 
that Monastery, I became public Imperial Royal Professor of Biblical 
studies of the "New Covenant" in the city of Clagenfurt, in Carintbia. 

During the ten years of my Professorship, manifold signs and wonders 
occurred, which I understood at that time only so far, that Christ and 
His Heavenly Armies were preparing great things for Union and Peace of 
Nations. I will give below a specimen of a great wonder and sign which 
was given A. D. 1835, and which is, in an astonishing manner, elucidated 
by the unexpected death and National lamentation at the funeral of Abra- 
ham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of North America. 

Shortly before my call to America a book appeared in Germany, which 
was published by a traveller collecting in the United States the Divisions 
and Subdivisions of Sects, which have their public worship in the English 
and also in other languages : and he collected and published about three 
hundred diflerent Sects. At length I have received from my Master, or- 
der to prepare for my voyage to xVmerica, and 'examine wbat these Sects 
liad prepared for Union of all Nations in Christ's Peaceable Beign. After 
having received order from my Master, passport from the Austrian Gov- 
ernment, and all other things having been procured against human expec- 
tation, I arrived on my birth-day, November 29th, 1837, at the same 
hour in America, in which I was born on the same day, A. D. 1795, 
in Kamnik of Illyria. After my arrival in America, wonders and signs 
continued. At length, on the 7th January, 1838, against all human ex- 
pectation, 144 witnesses signed their names in my Catalogue, and became 
then my assistants, in what was to be performed in the Boman Catholic 
Church for the fulfilment of great Prophecies. In the presence of those 
144 and many other witnesses, I was entranced by my invisible Direc- 
tor and his Heavenly assistants, on Sunday Sexagesima, the 18th Feb- 
ruary, 1838, and initiated into my present Mission, which is expressed 
on the title page of this pamphlet ; and after that initiation great prepa- 
rations took place under the direction of Heavenly Iilessengers, whose 
medium or instrument I was for the execution of Divine Decrees, which I 
did not understand at the performance, but which have been afterwai'ds 
gradually so disclosed, that any attentive student of the book, for which 
I am preparing readers by this circular, will easily understand them. 

Heavenly agents had procured the 144 witnesses from different regions 
of Europe, ami had taken care that each of those witnesses who had a 
peculiar Mission to perform, had a corresponding name, and put his name 
on the corresponding place of our Catalogue according to our Spirit lan- 
guage by names and numbers, and that, without our knowledge, the 90th 
and the 100th of those witnesses have put in our Catalogue, instead of 
their own names, the 90th — the name which comprehends the mysteries 
of the Beast with Seven Heads and the number 666, in Revelation XIII, 
18 ; and the 100th — the mysteries of the Image of the Beast, or its Ten 
Horns. Those witnesses, have been Mediums, ignorant of what they 



were doing, wbcn they put those names into our catalogue, and none of us 
did observe that they put other names; and when they should have come 
and co-operated with us, they did not appear. 

At length I roceived, in the week before Easter, three different 
times, the order from my Heavenly Master to take the names of the 90th 
and the 100th of our Catalogue, and to excon^muuicate them on Easter 
Sunday, Api'il 15th, 1838, from Christ's Church, after having prepared 
the congregation of the 144 witnesses and many others, for the Solemn 
Excommunication . 

All this having been done, the mystery of that Excommunication was 
afterwards gradually developed, and the great preparations througli the 
course of centuries and the wonders which preceded, as well as tlie won- 
ders which succeeded; and the prophecies, which to unlock we have re- 
ceived the key in that Excommunication; and the Divine assufance, that 
what is comprehended in it, will certainly be fulfilled in our Mission — all 
this has been abundantly explained in my first three German volumes, 
which have been published from A. D. 1838 till 1840. 

If I had departed into the Spirit world directly after the publication of 
those volumes, the work of the Mission which I represent, had continued 
as well as it continues, while I am yet in this outward tabernacle. But 
it continued until this time so clandestinely that nations have perceived 
very little of our preparations, although we have sent copies of those vol- 
umes to the Emperor of Austria, to the King of Bavaria and to the King 
of France, urging the first two, and many of their ecclesiastical and po- 
litical grandees, by our letters, to encourage them to give our volumes 
to Theologians to examine, and to send the results of their examina- 
tion to me to be published with my remarks, that Nations might be aroused 
to study the great Events for Harmony and Peace on Earth ; and although 
we have urged King Louis Philippe, in our handwriting, to order a French 
translation of those volumes, and put it in circulation amongst the French 
people. Although in my volumes as well as in my letters the 'most solemn 
assurance was given, that Revolutions and Wars could not be prevented 
except by spreading the wonderful disclosures in our publications for Union 
of Nations in Christ's Peaceable lleign, those in Europe as well as those 
in America who should have opened the door for the circulation of our 
Message of Peace, remained in the service of deluding and destroying 
Spirits; and we continued the work of our Mission, developing the mys- 
teries, for the full development of which the longest life of a man would 
be too short. But so much has been disclosed already (1840) by the 
publication of our third volume, as was superabundantly sufficient to move 
all Parties and Sects for the glorious Union in Christ's Peaceable lleign. 
Notwithstanding this, they remained dead. But we are preparing their 
resurrection, by this circular, to collect everywhere subscriptions for the 
volume, the title of which is on the title page of this epistle; and in the 
first part of which you will receive so much explanation of what has been 
hinted to this point, regarding the Divine Spectacle for the Pacification of 
Nations, that we expect that you will co-operate with us for the fulfilment 
of the grandest Promises to. mankind; and, in the second part of the 
book, you will read the wonders and signs at the execution of Divine 
judgments in which the three Boraau Catholic Monarchs to whom our vol- 
umes have been sent, have been dethi-oned ; and the most solemn warnings 
which have been given by virtue of our Mission to the Seven Presidents 
of the United States who succeeded after the prophetical death of Presi- 
dent Harrrisou ; and the wonders and signs which have been given at our 
applications to those seven Presidents, the last of whom became so re- 
markable, that we find proper to give in this circular some disclosures of 
the mysteries included in the death of President Lincoln, to inspire readers 



to prepare the American and other Nations for a glorious Resurrection 
and Ascension into Ciirist's Peaceable Reign on Earth. 

"The Flaming Sword! or a Sign from Heaven," is the most remarka- 
ble amongst the prophecies regarding the United States of North America. 
It was not understood till It had been handed to me, A. D. 1861, in an 
edition of the year 1848, and I have explained it directly by the Spirit 
of Truth, who had prepared in my publications, many years ago, what 
was required for its understanding. The last edition I saw, is, "New 
London, (Conn.) Starr & Farnham, printers, 1857." 

The shocking death of President Lincoln spreads great light upon said 
prophecy, and in the book for which we are preparing readers, are unex- 
pe^cted disclosures regarding great events which occurred since Good Fri- 
day last and this Easter time — on the 1st day of May, 1865, I am writino' 
this. To direct your attention to those events, we copy the following pas- 
sage from said prophecy. The author, whose signature is Timothy P. 
Walker, commences page 3 of the New London edition : 

"On the 26th of March, 1798, as I was on my journey with a team 
from Woodstock, in Connecticut, the place of my nativity, to Burlington, 
in Vermont, on the evening of the 27th of said month, I called for enter- 
tainment at the house of Capt. J. Bissel, inn-holder in Chelsea." For 
the purpose of this circular we copy only the last part from page 6, as 
follows : 

"As the clock struck three, I arose from my bed and prepared my team, 
and paid my fare, and sat out on my journey. I had not got on my way 
more than a mile and a half, before my team, which consisted of four 
oxen and a horse, in full speed, were instantly stopped, as though hushed 
by a mighty hand. I, unthinkingly, bid them go on, but without effect; 
for, at the same instant, a bright light appeared to overspread the horizon, 
and an Angel, or some supernatural being, as I conceived, descended and 
stood erect in the air but a little distance before me, dressed in a long un- 
soiled robe, with a Flaming Sword in his hand ; and I can say with Daniel, 
I was alone and without strength. And he said unto me, ' stand on thy 
feet and give ear to the words which I shall speak.' And as I stood 
trembling I lifted up my eyes and beheld his face, which had the appear- 
ance of lightning, and his eyes were as lamps of fire ; the sword which 
he held in his hand, to appearance, was about thirty feet long, the hilt of 
which was variously ornamented ; it appeared of pure gold set with stones 
of various hues, the blade of which resembled fire ; and I cast up my eyes 
and beheld a bow in the cloud, beautifully variegated, much resembling a 
rainbow, encircling a constellation of sixteen stars, differently diversified, 
there being nine in the southerly part of the bow, of a most beautiful 
azure, in the centre of which appeared an Olive Branch, richly decorated 
with golden buds; the seven to the north were of a deep crimson, and 
all very transparently brilliant, which afterwards separated. The nine of 
the azure fell to the south, and the seven of a crimson to the north, at- 
tended with a heavy rumbling in the air, like the rushing of many armies 
to battle, at which I fell with my face to the ground, where I lay in a pro- 
found reverie for some time. At length, I thought I heard an audible 
voice articulate and say, ' All these are signs by which you shall know 
what is to befal the Nations now in the latter days.' 

" Wo unto the inhabitants of the land for their sins and ingratitude; in 
wars and rumors of wars they shall abound ; their fields shall be crimsoned 
with the blood of their own citizens, and nothing but lamentation and 
mourning shall be heard to echo through the lonely valley, until all the 
tares and brambles of the earth shall be plucked up, and demolished from 
the face thereof, by the pestilence which walketh in darkness, and by the 
sword which lays waste at noon-day; for there shall be such a destruction 



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as shall greatly thin the inhabitants of the earth, both by war, pestilence 
and famine, until there shall arise a branch from the root of Jesse, who 
shall perform such remarkable wonders through the power of the Almighty 
God, as shall effectually convince the world of his Divine authority, and 
shall cause eventually the remnant of all Nations to be of one heart, one 
mind and one religion; when there shall be no more wars among mankind, 
who will ever after be in the strictest bonds of mutual friendship, profess- 
ing unfaining love to God and one another ; and the Jews and Gentiles 
shall coincide in sentiments, and become one and indivisible, declaring 
. Jesus Chaist to be their only King and Sovereign ;' and as he ended, 
proclaimed, ' Father, thy will be done on earth as in Heaven, and may all 
people say. Amen !' 

"And as he spake these words, I looked and behold the Sword which 
he held in his hand was transformed into an Olive Branch, which grew 
and overspread the horizon, under which a reflection of light presented to 
my view a long and spacious landscape covered with an innumerable host 
of beings like unto the stars of Heaven, worshipping and praising Him 
who is King over all these; the Lion lay down with the Lamb, &c*." 
I omit the twelve last lines, and then is the signature, "Timothy P. 
Walker," on the !Sth or last page. 

As preparation to understand the copied prophetical phenomenon, I copy 
a portion of the Epistle to the Prince Bishop of Laibach, which I wrote 
under Heavenly direction in June, 1S59, during the war'of Francis Jo- 
seph, Emperor of Austria, against the King of Sardinia and his ally, Em- 
peror Louis Napoleon. At that lime I was printing the book: "Secret 
Enemies of True Republicanism," and was inspired to translate directly 
said Epistle into English and publish in said book, in which it appeared 
from page 108 to page 124. While writing said Epistle, I supposed that 
the Bishop would look in the Bible, when I referred to it ; therefore, you 
will please, while reading the following portion, to look from the 18th 
verse to the end of the second chapter of Revelation. That portion of 
said Epistle to the Prince Bishops of my native Diocese, Laibach, com- 
mences in the first line of the 118th page and ends in the 9th line from 
the bottom of the 119th page, and reads as follows: 

"The seven churches in the second and third chapters of the Revela- 
tion were prophetical churches, typifying the seven States, to which all 
churches of the Christian name since the edition of the Revelation until 
the foundation of the universal peace on earth may be reduced, so that 
every portion of the Christian name belongs to the one or the other of the 
seven churches. In the third of the above mentioned (five German) vol- 
umes, we, that is I, under the direction of invisible assistants, have dis- 
closed so much regarding the fulfilment of the prophecies in our time, as 
is abundantly sufficient for testimony of our mission. In our disclosures 
Thyatira in the 18th verse of the second chapter of the Revelation is the 
type of the Roman Catholic Church. What is said concerning that church 
until the end of that chapter, you Bishops should at length consider 
and digest well. You kept fast what you did not understand till at length 
the Lord comes by our Mission, and unlocks by our mediumship the Di- 
vinity for His Reign of Peace. We have overcome and to us was given 
"the Rod of Iron and the Morning Star." I speak in the name of all 
those who are co-operating with me according to the Plan of the Most 
High for the universal peace of all nations. We have "the iron rod" but 
not the iron sword. The rod is only a symbol of our office to announce 
judgments to the disobedient nations and their rulers. They are bruised 
enough and broken. Those who remain should at length hear our voice. 
Then their wrong systems will be broken to pieces, but men will be saved. 
For we have received not only the iron rod, but also the morning star. 



In the great temptations through which we had to pass, we remembered 
the morniug star which appeared several times during the sunshine in 
close connexion with our steps, and once in a peculiar connexion with you, 
Piince Bishop, Anthony Slomshek! as well as in connection with the Em- 
peror of Austria ! You remember that I wrote, at a certain occasion, my 
opinion in regard to your sermons, which appeared in print in our Slavo- 
nian mother tongue ; and in that article, I made also some extracts 
from my Latin manuscript, "On the Congeniality of Languages," to pub- 
lish them with that article in the " Carinthia." I finished writing that 
article on the Gth of February, 1835. When I was, on the Tth of Feb- 
ruary*, well nigh ready to go to my students in the college, I was moved 
by the Sjiirit to write instantly a prophetical conclusion to that article. 
When I finished that conclusion, I hurried to be in the college. After 
that, there was much talking among the Professors and others about the 
Morning Star, which appeared on that forenoon during sunshine. I ex- 
plored exactly the time and found that the star appeared when I com 
menced writing that prophetical conclusion, and disappeared, when I fin- 
ished writing. I handed then that article to you, to deliver it to the edi- 
tor of the Carinthia. But there occurred an accident, that the article ap- 
peared later than I expected ; so in the Carinthia, that the last part with 
the great prophecy, regarding the peace of nations, was published on Eas- 
ter Saturday, April 18, 1835, or on' the eve of the birth-day of the Em- 
peror Ferdinand, the first year of his government. His birth-day was 
celebrated that year on Easter Sunday. An exact calculation was made 
by our invisible agents. The poems of two panegyrists of the birthday 
of the Emperor appeared in the same number immediately before our 
prophecy. Those two adulators were types of the two adulators, (the 
names which we expressed in the epistle, I omit in this circular.) These 
two prelates have deluded the Emperor in regard to our Mission, and, as 
a consequence, terrible judgments came upon governments and nations. 
But this writing is connected with the Morning Star, which should be de- 
livered by you to the young Emperor Francis Joseph and to many nations 
as well as the ancestors of the Emperor, who are waiting in the Empire 
of Death for their redemption by our Message. It should be delivered by 
you in the midst of judgments," &c. 

In the passage which we have copied above from "The Flaming Sword," 
is "The Constellation of Sixteen Stars." These, as will become evident 
in the volume, and for investigation this hint may suffice, are the sixteen 
Presidents who belong to that Constellation, from George Washington to 
Abraham Lincoln. Nine of those Presidents were born in the States 
which seceded and seven in the States which remained in the Union. 

' ' The Branch from the Boot of Jesse who shall perform such remarka- 
ble wonders by the power of the Almighty God," See., is our Branch. 
By studying the volume to which this circular is a preparation, you will 
learn h'ow our Mission is called a "Branch from the Boot of Jesse." One 
man represents this Mission. The Land and the Town, the Nation and 
the Church in which he was born and educated ; all his names, the time 
in whicli he appeared, the times in which "he performed such remarkable 
wonders — as shall cause eventually the remnant of all nations to be of one 
heart, one mind and one religion," &c., all this has been prophesied and 
explained in my publications, and the substance will appear in the book 
for which I am preparing readers of this circular. 

It is a common, but not correct expression, that Apostles have performed 
wonders. Those who think for themselves, know how to take that ex- 
pression, to wit: invisible messengers of the Almighty God, are co-opera- 
ting in such relation with the man who has a Divine Mission, that men of 
sound mind have sufiicient proof of this relation and are satisfied that he 



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is sent from God to deliver mankind fr^mi their degradation and misery. 

"The Sword which the angel held in his hand, was about thirty feet 
long." It is easily comprehended, that the Sword is taken for all kinds of 
weapons of war, and for armies of soldiers ready to destroy with the sword 
and with other weapons of war, the enemies of their government. It could 
be also easily expected, that the thirty feet of the sword means thirty years 
of the terrible condition in which governments will put their trust in weapons 
of war. This they have done through thousands of years. But in the 
prophetical phenomenon, a peculiar time is pointed out. This Sword is 
closely connected with the Constellation of the Sixteen Stars and with the 
Branch from the Root of Jesse, which will abolish the sword and maintain 
Peace, by quite different means, thi-ough the course of ages. 

It is evident that the " Branch" means not one man, but a Mi.ssion. 
which needs many men and women for a long time to abolish all wars 
amongst all Nations and produce what the Angel announces. Neverthe- 
less, this Mission commences with one Representative, who performs and 
explains what this Mission must know to -commence to accomplish the glo- 
rious prophecies, regarding the Union and Peace of Nations Therefore, 
we must look to a certain point in the course of the life of this Represen- 
tative, to a certain Memorable Event in his "Constellation," to find the 
time of about thirty feet or about thirty years. In the above copied pas- 
sage from the 118th and 119th pages of our volume: "Secret Enemies 
of True Republicanism," is the point from which these "about thirty 
years" must be numbered. 

The 7th day of February, 1835, was selected as the most suitable day 
by my invisible Directors, to make such a change in the atmosphere, that 
the Morning Star appeared surprisingly fulgent during sunshine in con- 
nection with my long hard labour, comparing languages with languages, 
while I was .studying works in different ancient and modern langunges 
and observing the congeniality of languages; because I understood that 
the study of this congoniality will spread a great light upon Theology, 
which should be ratlier called Pneumatology, and upon other branches of 
human knowledge for Union and Peace of Nations At length, on the 
above mentioned day, I was inspired to write the prophetical conclusion, 
spoken of in the passage which was copied above, from the 118th and 
llOtli pages of my book, "Secret Enemies of True Republicanism." Af- 
ter having heard much talk about that Morning Star, so fulgent during 
sunshine, that it inspired spectators with admiration, I explored exactly 
the time in which it appeared and disappeared— to wit: it was fulgent pre- 
cisely while I was writing what the spirit suggested to write. Then I 
was certain, that the Spirit Agency from our sphere had procured that 
splendor to encourage us in the continuation of our work ; and that it con- 
tained the I'enovation of the promise, that the prophecy written by me 
during the fulgent star at sunshine, will be exactly fulfilled. 

Although the morning star appeared during sunshine in close connexion 
with my work, also at some other occasions; and although other j^ropheti- 
cal stars of great importance appeared, too, in close connection with our 
Mission, the Star on the 7th of February, 1835, during sunshine, was the 
principal Star for our consolation, during manifold tribulations and suffer- 
ings and continual opposition to our work. And what is called in the 
copied passage from the Epistle " an accident," I consider to be an acci- 
dent, exactly planned by my invisible Directors, that that portion of my 
writing which contained the great prophecy, was printed on Etlster Sat- 
urday, which was also the eve of the birth-day of Ferdinand, Emperor of 
Austria. His birth-day, April 19, 1835, was Easter Sunday in the first 
year of his government. And although in the same number of the "Ca- 
rinthia," the poems of two flatterers preceded our great prophecy, I trusted 



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that governments will at length be moved to repudiate flatterers and receive 
Messengers of Truth for their temporal and eternal salvation. ]>ut, I had 
been astonished, if at that time, had been revealed to me, that about thirty 
years were to be added to all my preceding hard labour for the develop- 
ment of the Pneumatology or Doctrine regarding Spirits for Union and 
Peace of Nations ; and that during those thirty years all kinds of persecu- 
tions, dangers of life, and privations would be required, till the Evening 
Star during sunshine would appear, announcing the near approach of 
great movements for the abolition of wars' and other plagues, by which 
Nations must be scoui'ged till they renounce delusion and receive truth for 
their temporal and eternal welfare. 

AVhen the time of about thirty feet of the Sword, or about thirty years of 
wars and preparations for wars since the 7th February, 1835, expired on 
the 4th of March, 1865, Abraham Lincoln wa,s inaugurated for the second 
term of his Presidency. I was told that that day was cloudy, — but at 
length the cloud was removed, and during sunshine, the evening star was 
seen, and spoken of in the public journals. I heard of this occurrence in 
several places, — and a great supporter of President Lincoln, a student of 
astronomy, spoke to me with astonishment regarding that star ; and a 
coloured man, who was particularly attached to President Lincoln, told me 
that Jie saw it in Williamsburg, New York, at about 4 o'clock, P. M., 
and that the star was pale. Those whose attention was drawn to the even- 
ing star during sunshine, at President Lincoln's inauguration, did not un- 
derstand its meaning. 

What we wrote during the brilliancy of our Morning Star, during sun- 
shine, on the 7th February, 1835, appeared in print on Easter Saturday, 
1835, — and on Easter Saturday, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died ; 
but the day of his death was the 15th of April, 1865 — and that day 
was in the year 1838, Easter Sunday. On that Feast in that year, the 
Grand Excommunication of the Beast with Seven Heads, and of its Image 
or its ten Horns, was performed by our instrumentality, according to I i- 
vinc command, under direction of Heavenly Messengers. By that Excom- 
munication Divine assurance was given, that what is comprehended in it, 
will be accompliished in our Mission. The wonders and signs which pre- 
ceded, accompanied and succeeded said Excommunication, have been pub- 
lished in several volumes — but Governments and Nations were not accus- 
tomed to pay attention to the great wonders — and we have prepared an 
abridgment of those wonders in the manuscript, which should be published 
in a large volume, and spread by mutual co-operation of citizens of the 
United States. 

If they will do what is required in said manuscript, the glorious Mille- 
nium will commence, — but if they remain obstinate, plagues will continue, 
and destruction of human life and property will spread in the countries 
which have been comparatively exempt. When our Heavenly Message 
will be received, the 15th of April will be the immovable Easter Feast; 
and also the 19th April, or the 5th day of the octava of our Easter is a re- 
markable day, since the commencement of the American Revolution with 
the battle of Lexington, April 19th, 1775. And in our Mission for the 
celebration of Easter Sunday, April 19, 1835, our great prophecy for a 
new birth or regeneration of the Governments appeared in print on Easter 
Saturday, 1835. But Governments remained obstinate, till at length on 
that same day the first victims of this civil war were killed in Baltimore, 
April 19th, 1861, and four years afterwards, on that same day, the great 
funeral celebration of President Lincoln took place. Great wonders and 
signs since his nomination for the first Presidential term, in correspond- 
ence with our Divine Mission occurred. An abridgment of them will be 
given in the book, for which we are preparing readers by this circular, 



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tHat they migbt commence to celebrate the glorious resurrection of the liv- 
ing in mortal bodies, as well as their departed friends. 

In a circular we could not enter into a full explanation, but give only 
the key to unlock one of many most remarkable prophecies regarding the 
memorable events of our Divine Mission. We copied only from the 6th, 
7th and 8th pages of the New London edition, 1857, the prophetical phe- 
nomenon, which commenced after "3 o'clock, A M., while Timothy P. 
Walker was with his team on his journey. But we would not enlarge this 
circular, and omitted to enter into explanation of what is related on the 
4th and 5th pages. The narrative commences in the 5th line of the 4th 
page, with the words: " A few minutes before the clock struck one, aS I 
conceived, I awoke," &c. You will learn in the volume, for which I pre- 
pare you by this circular, that a few minutes before one o'clock, and at 
three o'clock in the night, I was awakened many times by ray Director, 
and received most important orders from Heaven. And for the propheti- 
cal communications given to Timothy P. Walker, one of the many fore- 
runners, preparing the way for our Mission, also corresponding hours were 
selected, to teach you that he was amongst the American Forerunners of 
our Mission, most remarkable. I presume that if I give the key to what 
was shown him after 3 o'clock, those who read the whole, will easily un- 
derstand, that after 1 o'clock, while he was yet in his bedroom, was shown 
him the war with England, which commenced A. D. 1812, in connexion 
with foreboding of the Civil War, and of the final issue of the grand pre- 
parations ; because it is often the case, that when prophecies ai-e given in 
regard to some events nearer to the time of the prophet, some glimpse is 
cast upon more remote events. While he was yet in bed, after 1 o'clock, 
he relates: "At length, me thought, I heard an audible voice which said 
arise," &c. What follows, but for what is no room in this circular to be 
copied, is said by the angel, particularly in reference to the war of the 
United States with England, which commenced A. D., 1812. And after 
that are the following words of the angel, commencing on the 16th line of 
the 5th page : " And for a sign of these times shall you be witness of an 
angel descending with a long Flaming Sword in his hand, which shall turn 
to every point, to prepare the way for ushering the glorious day. Then 
shall the Sword be transformed into an Olive Branch, which shall arise 
and overspread the horizon, and appear as emblematical of the harmonious 
day into which all nations and languages shall be gathered into one fami- 
ly and all become of one heart and mind, to serve under the peaceable 
government of Him whose sceptre sways all worlds." 

The war of the United States with England was closed A. D. 1814 : and 
that was the year in which we were celebrating in the City of Laibach, in 
Ulyria, " emblematically the ushering of the glorious day." The work 
which I received at that celebration for the first premium, so unexpectedly, 
as the grand ofiice in which I am serving to all Nations since A. D 1838, 
without any salary, contains the most admirable prophecy regarding ray 
ofiice. In that piopheey appeared several hundred years ago, ray family 
name, the exact time of my appearance in this Mission, the work of my 
Mission, the principal periods of my Mission, stars announcing the grand 
object of our Mission, in such an admirable manner, that neither the pro- 
phet, nor any interpreter of his Divine Comedy understood it; and I my- 
self understood nothing about the mystery which we were celebrating, 
when I received, A. D. 1814, the Divine Comedy for the first premium, 
and my Professors understood nothing of it, although they themselves 
were prophesying and adding supplements to that prophecy. 

At length in our Divine Slission we have received the key to unlock 
those and many other prophecies, which have been given by Jewish, 
Heathen and Christian prophets in reference to our Mission. And what 



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■we were celebrating A. D. 1814, without understanding, while we were 
preparing for the " Harmonious Day," I have explained in this l)ivine 
Mission, under direction of Heavenly Messengers. And A. I). 1840, I 
published in my third volume, which contains 864 pages, more than 100 
pages on prophecies, which have been handed to me A. D. 1814, foretell- 
ing "the way for ushering the glorious day." In the volume for which I 
am preparing readers by this circular, the substance of those prophecies is 
exhibited in connexion with manifold other prophecies and memorable 
events, to inspire Nations " for ushering the Harmonious Day." For I 
repeat, that the sooner they will hear the Heavenly voice, proclaimed by 
vivtue of our Mission : " Come out from Babylon, my people," the sooner 
they will banish from the country. War, Pestilence and otlfer evils. But 
wo unto them, if they remain after these warnings, obstinate sinners a- 
gainst the Holy Ghost ! 

I remark that each of those prophecies which have been given in refer- 
ence to our Mission, and each of those Memorable Events by which they 
have been fulfilled and are fulfilling, is the easier and the bettei' under- 
stood, the deeper it is studied in connexion with the whole. Therefore, 
you will understand the wonders enclosed in the Flaming Sword as well as 
in other prophecies, which are astonishingly fulfilling in our Divine M ission, 
by studying the whole connexion of all that is related in the manuscript 
to be printed in a volume of large size, for which I am preparing readers 
of this circular. In said manuscript we have concentrated as much as in 
a book, to be generally studied by all classes of men, could be concen- 
trated out of an inexhaustible treasury for the commencement of Christ's 
Peaceable Reign, which will commence, when one or the other Clotern- 
ments will be reached^ by the exertions of which other Governments will 
be moved for co-operation ; and those Representatives of Governments who 
will not submit to the Divine Order, will be either by director indirect in- 
fernal agency exterminated. 

Citizens of the United States should not be deceived by the strange 
events which happened for the celebration of Easter of this year. It hap- 
pened that all who understand this circular, might ai'ouse, encourage and 
support the Government of the United States as well as other Governments 
which they are able to reach; to come from their " Constellation" of death 
into our "Constellation," which will bring the real life and most excellent 
blessings to all Nations. 

You will see from the volume, that when I would go to Europe in the 
expectation of finding there persons at one or the other Governments 
ready to look so deep into our Message as to be convinced of our Divine 
Mission and to act accordingly, I was informed by my Leader, that our 
work was not yet accomplished at the Government of Washington. And 
while I was seeking in the States of New York, Massachusetts and Con- 
necticut, to find some friends of President Lincoln, to prepare and send 
them to him, in the expectation that he might be at length reached by a 
Legation of strong f;iith in the Grand Promises given to our Mission for 
all Nations, every one had his excuse and declined to accept our invitation. 

While I was engaged in seeking President Lincoln's friends to prepare 
them for our Legation to him, the terrible murder was committed. From 
the disclosures given in this circular it is evident, that while the ungodly 
were seeking opportunity to commit their crimes, they were controlled by 
our Heavenly Directors, so that they have accomplished their atrocious 
work exactly according to prophecies, as those have done, who have 
murdered Jesus Christ ; that at length the great Resurrection of Nations 
might commence for establishing Christ's Reign of Truth, Righteousness, 
Real Union and Peace. And I wrote this circular, that the glorious Res- 
urrection and Ascension from Hell and Purgatory towards Heaven, might 



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commence at length with great Power by the Government and People of 
the United States. 

Other things you will learn in the volume ; and I mention here, that I 
labor without pay and suffer manifold privations in this Mission, which must 
be supported by you, if you will become partakers of the most excellent fruits 
which it will produce. Therefore, those for whose conviction of the Truth 
of our Mission, this circular will suffice; and that our Mission embodies 
all Missions for the elevation of mankind from their degraded condition, 
will direct their treasures and their men for the support of our Mission. 

The volume will be much enlarged by the last memorable events, and 
we expect that .those who read this circular, will be inspired to become 
Messengers of Peace, by collecting as many subscriptions for the volume 
as they themselves, or with assistance of others, are able to collect — and 
in both languages, English and German, they should be collected; be- 
cause, publishing this circular in English we expect that soon subscriptions 
will be ready for a large English edition ; and that those who will com- 
prehend this circular and are acquainted with -Germans, will move them 
to collect subscriptions for the German edition of the volume. 

As the circulation of my books has been hindered until now, against 
human credibility, so there will be a time, in which their circulation will 
exceed common expectation. If citizens of the United States will com- 
prehend this circular, they will realize this directly — this being the neces- 
sary step to remove revolutions and wars and manifold other evils which 
have their origin in irreligion as well as in religious superstition. But 
our Heavenly Mission shows the way in which trutli will be gradually de- 
veloped, and genuine religion introduced for the temporal and eternal wel- 
fare of Nations. * 

One dollar in gold, or in other money equivalent to one dollar in gold, 
will be the price for single copies. Out of this money also postage will 
be prepaid, when copies are sent by mail. For those who unite with us 
in our Heavenly Mission and collect subscribers, provisions will be made 
that they will be rewarded in proportion to their labour. If money should 
be realized from the sale of the book or donations be sent, it will be ap- 
plied to our Mission, which has no means for publishing this circular; al- 
though large means — but not so large as the expenses have been for one 
days war — are needed for the largest enterprise to commence the harmo- 
nious day of Union of all Nations in Christ's Peaceable Reign. 

Those who are able- to contribute any support to our Mission, may con- 
cluiio from what has been mentioned in the preceding pages, and from what 
will be disclosed in the following pages, containing the second part of this 
Epistle, that contributions have never been made for a more important work 
for the whole human race, than the work of our Mission — a work to which 
I have contributed all my property, all my talents and endured all my 
privations, that I might become exceedingly rich in spiritual treasures. 
And all who are moved by this great circular Epistle, for co-operation 
with us in the glorious Mission, will partake of these inexhaustible treas- 
ures m proportion to their co-operation with their sincere brother, 

ANDREW B. SMOLNIKAR. 



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THE APPOINTMENT OP A CONVENTION. 

We address those who are convinced from what has been said in the pre- 
ceding and from what will be said in the following pages in the second part, 
that our Heavenly Mission is not imagination but reality, founded on facts, 
partly directed, partly controlled by Heavenly agents, according to Divine 
wisdom, in such a connexion with our preparations for the introduction of 
Christ's Peaceable Reign or the Universal Republic of Truth and Right- 
eousness, that it is evident from the whole connexion of these facts, that 
our Mission is in close communion with Heavenly agents. Only those 
who penetrate so deep into this pamphlet as to be convinced of this truth, 
and by virtue of this conviction will be ready to do what our Mission i-e- 
quires for their own and the welfare of their fellow-men, are invited to this 
Convention, if they have the qualifications, after having heard within the 
twelve days during which its sittings will last, the reading and interpreta- 
tion of the manuscript, for the volume spoken of in this Epistle, to contri- 
bute substantial aid to our ^Mission, either as travelling Missionaries, or by 
their operation from their residence, and by their property for the support 
of our Mission, by which they will lose nothing, but gain much, if they 
are really convinced of our Heavenly Mission and by virtue of this convic- 
tion ready to do what our Mission requires. 

I remark that a great preparation to this Convention will be a repeated 
thorough study of this pamplilet. also for those who at its first perusal will 
be convinced of our Heavenly Mission ; because I myself, the writer of this 
pamphlet, do conceive the more light, the oftcner I read it, on account 
that I wrote it according to the direction of the Spirit who has concentra- 
ted into it greater treasures than I could perceive at the first perusal. 

From these hints we announce that the Convention will last twelve days 
from the First day of Scjytemher next, 1865, to the Vltli day of l^'epttndjer, 
1865. The place for the appointed Convention is at the Peace-Union 
Hall, in Springhill of Tuscarora Mountain, near Donnally's Mill, in Perry 
County, State of Pennsylvania, six miles from Millerstown Station on the 
Central Railroad of Penn.sylvania. The Peace-Union Hall having been 
built A. D. 1859, and invitations having been made to Conventions to pre- 
pare what was for Peace of Nations, but our invitations not having been 
regarded, the most destructive war was the consequence of the obstinacy. 
Now nothing is prepared for a Convention at the Peace-Union Hall. Rut 
we invite Pioneers, that they might become prepared and prepare others 
to prevent new destruction of human life and property, and see on the 
spot what should be established at the most beautiful and healthy location 
for a Provisional Centre of onr Peace-Union, and at. the same occasion re- 
view with me the English manuscript for our next volume, and learn to 
understand and improve it by additions, omissions and alterations ; be- 
cause I teach always that I am not an infallible Pope, but Christ's disci- 
ple, continually learning and teaching what I have learned for the real 
welfare of mankind. In twelve dajs of the Convention I could teach 
much more than could be concentrated in the manuscript for the volume 
for which collection of subscriptions was recommended in the first part of 
the Encyclic Epistle ; because the time of the twelve days will be regard- 
ed as most precious, during which the most useful labour will be the read- 
ing of the manuscript with our questions how each paragraph was under- 
stood by the audience, and with critical remarks made by some of the au- 
dience, and my remarks to the criticism, to enable the audience to learn 
to penetrate as deep as possible into the contents of the manuscript, to be- 
come Messengers and Interpreters of the volume, for a very large edition 



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of whicli, as we expect, subscriptions will be sent and brought to the Con- 
vention, to be printed directly after the Convention, in a large printing 
establishment, in which many compositors may be engaged at once for the 
composition of our volume, that the job might be done within a few days. 

As soldiers in the field do not look for accommodations, but are satisfied 
with a spot on the floor to sleep, likewise about 100 pioneers for Christ's 
Peace on Earth, may be accommodated to sleep on the floor in the Hall, 
and in the upper departments and the garret of the Hall. In the Hall 
are plenty of windows to get good fresh air, and straw and hay may be 
brought in to sleep on. Each Pioneer must provide himself with a blank- 
et or whatever he should find suitable to sleep more comfortable than on 
straw or hay alone, and with a towel. He should bring also a tin cup, 
spoon, knife and plate. He may leave at Millerstown "Station his bundle, 
with his name thereon, and walk from thence to our Peace-Union Hall, 
as I mostly do ; although I think that there will not be at our Convention 
many Pioneers so old as I am — and we will send for the bundles, valises, 
&c. Pioneers will be pleased to leave, after the Convention, the pieces at 
our Peace-Union as donations, which they will not need to carry back to 
their homes. Provisions and cooks to prepare food for the Pioneers, will 
be found in the neighbourhood, that no Pioneer might be disturbed with 
worldly affairs during the twelve days of pi'eparation for the Heavenly Mis- 
sion. But all who comprehend this pamphlet will collect subscriptions for 
the volume, and means, not only for travelling expenses of the Pioneers, 
but also for other purposes of our Peace-Union, which we need not specify 
here, and send them either by pioneers, if it is convenient, and they are 
known as trusty men, (because there may be hypocrites ready to attend 
our Convention, without having been convinced of our Divine Mission, 
and such a one, when discovered, will be dismissed the Convention,) or 
send your collections of subscriptions, and other contributions for our Mis- 
sion, by mail, to us, under the direction given at the end of this appoint- 
ment. You should not forget that our Mission is to all governments, and 
that our Latin manuscript should be published, too, and copies of it sent as 
donations to the Pope and his Bishops in all quarters of the globe, and 
that I should start for Europe as soon as my Mission in America will al- 
low, if my Master will keep me so long in my earthly tabernacle and en- 
able me to do all this before my departure into the spirit world. 

To the Convention only persons of the masculine sex are invited ; be- 
cause from what has been said in this " appointment," it is evident, that 
it would not be suitable to invite also the female sex. But to establish 
Christ's Peaceable Eeign on Earth, a powerful co-operation of women 
and men is required. Therefore we will hold, if my Master will be pleas- 
ed, a twelve days Women's Convention, as soon after this Convention, as , 
circumstances will allow. To this Convention I will invite two men, who 
may be found in the Male Convention to be most skillful to make others 
comprehend what is written or spoken by me. to assist in explaining to 
the members, what they nuist know and digest well for Christ's Peaceable 
Reign on Earth. We therefore request every sister, young and old, 
single and married, who, after having studied in this pamphlet, are con- 
vinced of our Heavenly Mission, to join with us to arouse males and fe- 
males for co-operation, and to collect subscriptions for the English volume 
which should be printed directly after our next convention, and donations 
for other purposes of our Mission. 

When several of those females, who by studying this pamphlet shall be 
convinced of our Heavenly Mission, will meet together, or correspond, 
they are requested to express their opinion, which city or village would be 
most suitable for holding the Womens' Convention, and they shoub! send 
their opinions frcm different States to us; and I would communicate them 



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to tlie Convention of men, that by consultation might be decided, which of 
the places which will be proposed, might be most profitable for said Con- 
vention ; because nothing else but the common welfare moves me in my 
actions, and the same welfare moves also every other true disciple of Christ 
in all his enterprises. 

Whereas, no more than about 100 pioneers could very profitably attend 
the appointed Convention, because every attendant should be so near as to 
hear distinctly every word which will be read or spoken by me or by any 
other during the convention, and this would not be the case, were the con- 
vention too large, — and whereas, about such a number would have room 
to sleep in the building of the Hall, — and whereas, it is necessary for those 
who will attend this Convention, to be, during those twelve days, entirely 
secluded from all influence which would draw their minds from our object 
to other matters, and therefure to remain the twelve days on the premises 
of our Peace-Union, to acquire in this short time the greatest riches for 
their own and the eternal life of Nations — we therefore propose that there 
ehall assemble no more than one hundred attendants to the Convention. 

Those who determine to attend the appointed Convention, will please to 
write it under the direction given below, and put in their letter as much 
as they would find proper regarding their education and their present oc- 
cupation. This will enable me to know them and to assist them during 
the 12 days of our Convention, to prepare for the occupation in which they 
could do most good in our mission. I do not expect that with this short 
notice one hundred would study this pamphlet so deep as to be moved to 
come and attend our Convention. But if a few would comprehend it di- 
rectly, and then arouse others to follow their example, many more than 
one hundred would determine to attend it. 

If we should receive letters from more than one hundred men who may 
determine to attend our Convention, we would write to those who could 
not obtain room to attend it, and would make for them other provisions. 
Therefore, mark well, that those who write and receive no answer to their 
letters, will be expected before 10 o'clock, a. m., September 1st, 1865, at 
our Peace-Union Hall; because we would write only to those for whom 
we would not have room. We expect from those who determine to attend, 
letters from the 1st to the 24th of August next. Letters are received only 
twice a week at our post office, and answers cannot be sent on the same 
day. 

I remark that R. D. Eldridge has furnished money for the Peace-Union 
property and the building of the Hall, and afterwards for different other 
expenses during the preparations, to have his share according to the plan 
which was published a. d. 1859, in our book : " Secret Enemies of True 
Republicanism," &c., and the substance of which will appear in our next 
volume ; because when that plan will be comprehended and put in opera- 
tion, Christ's Peaceable Reign will commence with power. ■ The harvest 
became so mature, that we expect at length many labourers. And if this 
circular Epistle will be comprehended, subscriptions for the next large 
volume and assistance for our Heavenly mission will be sent from all quar- 
ters by so many that he or his proxy will be needed as my helper in ans" 
wering letters. You will please direct letters to us before and during the 
appointed Convention, as follows : 

SMOLNIKAR & ELDRIDGE, 

Donnally's Mill, Perry County, Pa. 



SECOND I^A.RT 

OF THE 

G-EEAT ENCYCLIC EPISTLE, 

To Inspire Readers for our Heavenly Mission- 
» »a> . 

THIS PART WAS OCCASIONED BY THE CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. 



Friends : The second part must be added to prepare you for stud^'ing the volume 
the title of which is on the first page of this pamphlet — not that the first part would 
not be sufficient for those who digestifs contents, to be convinced of our Heavenly 
Mission — but that you might penetrate the deeper into the Divine Economy and be 
drawn the higher towards our sphere, the better you will be prepared to study and 
comprehend the volume. In this circular, we have made use oF '-The Flaming 
Sword," as the most remarkable prophecy for the citizens of the United Stales. But 
as we have given only hints on many other points which you will learu more fully in 
the volume, the same is also with said prophecy. 

When important Documents are delivered for use in my Mission, it happens 
generally with such preparations, as to draw in the first place my attention, and then 
the attention of others to them. You will read in the volume, for which we are pre- 
paring readers tiy this great circular, my uuex[)ected meeting under most remarkable 
circumstances with an old prophetess, who moved me to read "Tiie Flaming Sword," 
as the prophecy which was spoken of in the first part of this Epistle, is entitled in 
the New London edition of 1857. But the old prophetess has shown it to me in an 
appendix to a book published A. D. 1848. She asked me to see whether 1 could give 
any interpretation of said prophecy, which she felt to be most remarkable; although 
neither she nor others could disclose the mystery as far as it could be disclosed, with- 
out the aid of my publications, when the "The Flaming Sword " was first handed 
to me in the Fall of A. D. 1861. At that time, I explained it directly to those who 
were present, as far as it could be explained at that time; because I did not yet know 
where to commence to measure the 30 feet of the sword. I took then some extracts 
into my memorandum paper, to make use of them in my writings, when it would be 
convenient to mention "The Flaming Sword." That edition I saw in Ohio. But 
my JIaster intended to make greater use of " The Flaming Suord" by my instru- 
mentality than I knew at that time, and he directed me in February, 1864, while I 
was travelling in tbe State of Connecticut, to a prophet with whom I was acquainted 
for twenty years That prophet handed me, for a present, the New London edition 
of 1857, which we have used in this Epistle. Although he considered "The Flaming 
Sword " as a highly important prophecy, he understood as little of it, as those to 
whom we have given A. D. 1861, the key to unlock the mystery. 

At length, on the night in which President Lincoln was shot, I was preparing in 
the State of New York two Black Mediums, a man and a woman, to go to President 
Lincoln with some of my Documents to draw him from his " Constellation " into our 
"Constellation" to open a great door for the circulation of our Heavenly Message. 
I thought, after having made applications to many white friends of President Lin- 
coln, and every one having had his excuse, that perhaps some of his best black friends 
would comprehend the great Mission to which they were called. Tlie same moment 
in which President Lincoln was shot, the Black prophets prophesied so wonderfully, 
as you will read in the book lor which we are preparing you. I did not understand 
at that time their prophesying, biit understood it on the next following morning, when 
I read in a daily newspaper about the fatal ball which pierced into President Lincoln's 
head ; and on the third day of this month, (May, 1865,) when I came in the house 
of one of those two Mediums, and mentioned "The Flaming Sword," also that 
Medium did understand nothing of that prophecy, but shewed me an other edi- 
tion in which it appeared, and from which I copy as follows : 

" 'Zion's Messenger.' Published by the 'New Church' at Council BlufTs City, 
Iowa, Vol. 1, No. 1, January, 1854." Page 54 of that volume is headed: "An ac- 
count of a wonderful vision." Then the text reads: "We have thought to have 
written little more concerning the Branch, but as corroborative testimony on the 
subject, (and which seemingly places the matter beyond a doubt, has fallen into our 
hands,) we have thought to add it to this discourse. It is an extract from an old 



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manuscript, dated A. D, 1792, and signed by Timothy -P. Wtilker of Vermont, who 
states that he saw a most remarkable vision, which also he was commandtd to pub- 
lish to the world, and which he accordingly did. It is as follows :" 

Then appears on that and some of the following pages, the same "Vision " which 
occurs in the New London edition of 1857, under the title of " The Flaming Sword." 
The text is the same in both editions, except that in the New London edition the 
year 1798 is at the commencement ; but in Zion's Messenger the year is omitted there, 
and at the end before the name, "Timothy P. Walker," is the date " Vermont, 1792;" 
and the same is also in the book which, if I recollect well, is entitled, " The Return 
of the Jews to Palestine, 1848," in wuich this prophecy appears as an appendix at 
the end of the book. 

Other memorable disclosures regarding "The Flaming Sword" will be given in 
the volume tor which we are preparing readers, who will receive the more light re- 
garding the real condition of the United States during the Constellation of the sixteea 
Presidents, the deeper they will penetrate into the mystery of the Flaming Sword. 

You have manifold ditfereat readings in the Biblical prophecies, in which often- 
times each of those -readings spread new light upon the mystery inclosed ; and this 
is the case in tiie two different statements, one relating that it was the year 1798, 
while two other editions which have been handed to me, testify that it was the year 
1792, in which the prophecy' was given to Timothy P. Walker. Whether there are 
any other different readings, changing essentially the sense in the prophecy, I did not 
observe, while I found unexpectedly and was looking only obviously, each of those 
editions separately in different times and in great distance from each other, and rec- 
ollected only, that it was one and the same prophecy in all three editions. 

The edition ot 1854, which was handed to me last, was published by a Branch of 
Mormons, whose Leader afhrmed, that Joseph Smith was not the Branch spoken of 
in Isaiah and some other prophets. He expected already at that time to become the 
Head of Mormons; and after Joseph Smith's death that pretender appeared boldly 
against Brigham Young's pretensions, and affirmed that he was the Branch from the 
Root of Jesse, spoken ot in Isaiah, and he produced such testimonies as were agree- 
able to his blind followers. That same pretender gave to the black prophetess the 
volume towards the end of which is the Flaming Sword. I made use of that copy, 
and transcribed some passages into my volume tor which I am preparing readers. I 
penetrated, many years ago, as my mission required, into the depth ot Mormouism, 
as well as other Sectarianism, and disclosed the mysteries of each sect, to which I 
was directed by my Master, for the purpose of disclosing what was not understood, 
but must be, for the great Union, Harmony and Peace ot all Nations. My Master af- 
forded me the better opportunity to penetrate into the mysteries of one or the other 
Sect, the greater there was the treasury prepared for our use; and from all Sects many 
such persons joined with Mormons, as were expecting the near approach of the Mil- 
lennium, and have collected more or less testimony tor their exptctation. After the 
murder of the Mormon Head, Joseph Smith, and his exhibition before me in his real 
condition in which he is after his death, the documents have been delivered into my 
hands, which were needed to disclose the deepest mysteries ot Mormonism ; but most 
of those disclosures remained in my manuscripts. At length, "The Flaming iSword" 
has been given for our use. After having taken it into consideration and seen the 
characteristic notes which it contains, testifying, thai it could not be delivered to 
mortal men, except by a Heavenly .Messenger to whom the Divine Plan regarding the 
United States and our Mission has been either revealed; or the Revelaior has sent 
him as his Medium or Instrument, who bas understood as little of the Flaming Sword, 
as the writer and the readers, till the proper time arrived for the disclosure ot the my- 
stery, I did not ask by whom it was published, nor did 1 read the book, in which I 
saw first that prophecy ; but I read only the prophecy, and copied some extracts from 
ii. Nor did 1 enquire to which sect the man belonged who has published "The Flam- 
ing Sword" separately from other print in the New London edition, which we have 
used on the preceding pages. But after having received, on the 3d inst. the Vision, 
which we call lh3 Flaming Sword, in " Zion's Messenger," which was pufjiished by 
Mormons, I reflected upon the circumstances, under which I have received the other 
editions, and supposed that those have been published by Mormons. I mention this 
that those who have knowledge of any other edition, and when and where, and from 
what sources the first edition appeared, might make their knowledge public with the 
right use otour hints on these pages, which will receive more light iu the book, for 
Avhich we are preparing readers. 

It is to be remarked here, that it is of no consequence whether "The Flaming 
Sword" was exhibited A. D. 1792 or 1798, or the Spirit who has shown it, did refer 
to those years as particularly important tor the development of the Flaming Sword, 
nor whether it was shown to Timothy P. Walker, or this personage and all other 
points which appear to be historical, are as mystical as many reports in the Bible as 
well as ill many other books, which appear to be historical, are mystical, compre- 
hending prophecies. And we can as well explain iu the Flaming Sword what ap- 
pears to Le historical in it, as mysteries which are comprehended in other books, and 



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appeared to be historical, aYe explained when time arrives for their explanation. — 
Time has arrived for the interpretation of the Flamin"; Sword, on which we have 
given in this Encyclic Epistle as many hints as we found proper, to prepare you for 
the volume, in which you will read also in regard to the Flaming Sword, unexpected 
disclosures. 

We have given already in the third German volume which was published, A. D. 
1840, superabundance of testimonies, that our Jlission has been prophesied and ty- 
pified by Moses and other prophets of the Old Testament, by Christ and his Apostles 
and prophets through the course of centuries of the Christian Era, and manifoldly 
testified by all Sects of our time, with whom we had opportunity to meet, testified so 
wonderfully that the testimony became evident by our disclosures, notwithstanding 
all this, after the murder of Joseph Smith there appeared many other Pretenders, each 
claiming to be the Branch. But I was not directed, while treating how prophecies 
were fulfilling in our .Mission, to show how our Mission became the Branch of the 
Root of Jesse, spoken of in Isaiah and elsewhere. But in the above mentioned third 
volume as well as when afterwards was necessary to speak about the mystery, I have 
shown that the Mission which I represent, is the Mission of the Third Angel or Mes- 
senger, spoken of in Rev. XIV, 9 to 12, (angel or messenger being there a collective 
name, expressing the Mission which I represent,) and that this Mission is manifoldly 
prophesied in the books of the Old and New Testament and through centuries of the 
Christian Era and in our aae. But when the usurpers, called Mormons, came with 
the Flaming Sword, asserting that they were the Brunch, although they were great 
ignoramuses regarding that prophecy as well as regarding the mysteries of abomina- 
tions in their own ward of Babylon, we found proper to give in our volume for the 
study of which with all posible attention, we are preparing readers by this Encyclic 
Epistle, so much information regarding the Branch, as may suffice to unmask all Im- 
positors and Pretenders, and enable all Nations to learn to know, where the Branch 
is, bv virtue ot which Christ's Peace will be established on Earth, 

This we found proper to mention as an introduction to some disclosures regarding 
the mysteries of Jefferson Davis after his having been captured. 

We remark in the first place, that divine Mercy is preparing great means for uni- 
versal peace, if citizens of the United States will make the right use of them ; other- 
wise destruction of human life and property will be exceedingly great in the coun- 
tries which have not been desolated by the scourges of Civil War, jjcstilence and fam- 
ine. I have given in this Epistle sufTicicnl hints testifying that I look from a higher 
position into the depth of the hidden abomina'ions, than readers are able to do. 
And mentioning Jefferson D.ivis, I could write volumes of explanations of the mys- 
teries of the spheres which he rei)resents, to elucidate my assertion, that while Citi- 
zens of the United States are expecting Peace, there is no Peace for the ungodly, and 
that those who have aversion to study what Divine Mercy is disclosing by virtue of 
our Jlission tor real Peace of Nations, arc running and drawing the whole country 
into destruction. We are confined to an Encyclic Ei)isile, the size of which is dou- 
bled by this second Part in which we give only the following hints in reference to 
those whom JefiFerson Davis represents. These hints will receive light in the volume 
for which we are preparing the readers. 

Although my Mission was generally in the so-called Free States, I made several 
trials in the Slave States, to open the way for circulation of our Heavenly Message. 
But 1 did not remain in the slave States, because I found more freedom of speech in 
the so called Free Slates ; although manifold great injuries have been committed also 
in these States to check the circulation of our Ileaviuly Mess:ige. But in the book 
we shall give a more circumstantial report, that after having visited some of the 
Slave States sundry times before, I was sent A. D. 1848, while revolutionary wars 
were raging in Europe, to the Slave states, to warn Slaveholders by what was going 
on in Europe, to luevent it in America by receiving and spreading our Heavenly 
Message. I was sent A. D. 1848, unexpectedly from the city of New York to Charles- 
ton in South Carolina. From thence I came to Georgia, and from thence to Ten- 
nessee to start on Cumberland Mountain a provisional Centre, to prepare there and 
from thence, in a Periodical, what Nations should know for Harmony and Peace on 
Earth. 

Besides others. President Polk was exhorted repeatedly to support our Enterprise 
on Cumberland iMountain to prevent revolutions and wars and commence the Millen- 
nium. But those who had power to do in the easiest way what was required to com- 
mence to establish Christ's Peaceable Reign, had no sense for so glorious an enter- 
prise. You will read in the volume astonishing signs and wonders, which have been 
given during our preparations in Tennessee A. D. 1848, testifying that the careless- 
ness of Slaveholders and their Ministers regarding the Que Thing needful would 
bring the most dreadful curse upon the country And you will read also in the vol- 
ume the Signs aud Wonders in connexion with our trials of President Taylor to do, 
what would have cost him nothing, but would have opened the way for spreading 
the true Repulilican principles with power not only in America but also in Europe 
and in other quarters of the Globe. When the Presidents from the States which at 



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length seceded, would do nothing: for what is essentially necessary to cement the true 
Republican Union, Southerners should not be astonished, if those who were in the 
Presidential Chair after the departure of President Taylor, were in this respect iinita- 
tinji his example. Si^ns and wonders continued durin^ our applications to the 
Presidents Filraore, Pierce and Buchanan, testifying: that most dreadful destruction 
of human lite and property was approiching on account of the obduracy of Rulers 
and others imitatinf^ their example and despising our applications, in which we were 
showing to them what was required for the real true Repuhlican and truly Christian 
Union, without which what tbey call Republic, is nothing else but the building of 
the Babylonian Tower in the confusion of languages, till the whole edifice is crash- 
ing, tumbling and breaking to pieces. 

This may suffice as prepiration to the hints which follow here regarding Jefferson 
Davis, about whom furtlier disclosures you will read in the book to which this En- 
cyclic is an introduction. Tliose who are not stu|)id in "the One Thing needful" for 
the true spiritual life, should know already from what appeared in some newspapers 
regarding the unexpected correspondences in Abraham Lincoln's life compared with 
Jefferson Davis' life, that both were appointed to become Repiesentatives of two 
great Parties of men influenced by Warlike Spirits of great opposition to each other, 
both Parties operating for destruction of the edifice, which was either to be removed 
with preservation of what would be useful for the new edifice, or to be broken to 
pieces and destroyed in connexion with destruction and ruin of millions of men and 
an enormous amount of useful property. 

I, representing those who have Christ's Spirit, was laboring continuously to move 
in the first place Clergymen and Abolitionists and Heads of the Government and 
others in the so called Free States to make use of our spiritual weapons to commence 
to destroy all kinds of Slavery. But they did not regard our Mission. And when 
we made our applications to Slaveholders, many observed that I should apply first to 
those in the Free States. I will illustrate this with one instance, showing that Jef- 
ferson Davis was a great Medium influenced by spirits of delusion leading into de- 
struction. 

When in the North amongst those who should have given to all others good ex- 
ample, a great antipathy existed against the spiritual food which was offered them 
by virtue of our Divine Jlission, to communicate this food to all citizens of the 
United States and by their instrumentality to other Nations; we should not be as- 
tonished that in the South, which, in this respect, was not supposed to precede but 
to succeed in imitating the example of the North, we have experienced great indo- 
lence, when we were offering them the greatest treasures for their temporal and eter- 
nal life and pacification of Nations. — i 
I have a()plied at different times, particularly in critical moments, personally, to 1 
the Heads of the Government at Washington. I came in February, 1860, to that 
city with a document to be read in Congress. In that document I required a com- 
mittee to examine with me the credentials of the Mission which I represent and which 
must be the Mission of the Government of the United States, if they will labour for 
the true welfaie of the country ; because b^' no other means, except which are pre- 
pared in our Mission, the real religious union will be restored, and by virtue of that 
Un'on revolutions and wars will be abolished and essential Peace be eventually es- 
tablished on the whole globe. Although in that document so much was concentra- 
ted as was sufficient to move those who would have comprehended it, to read our 
document in Congress; every one to whom I have applied, was so controlled by the 
power of darkness that he declintd to read it. 

Here will suffice to mention, that I came at that my visit to Washington in Feb- 
ruary, 18G0, amongst others also, to Senator Bigler of Pennsylvania, from the same 
State in which we had built, in the previous summer, our Peace-Union Hall, and 
have shown in our book, 'Secret Enemies of True Republicanism," that if the coun- 
try would prevent revolutions and wars, those who have influence at the Government 
must come to our Peace-Union Hall and study what our Master has prepared for the 
Harmony and Peace of Nations. But when t'hey would not regard our invitation, I 
came to Washington to move the Congress to take interest in our Mission. But when 
each of those whcm I endeavoured to move to read my Document in the Senate or 
in the House of Represenealives, had some excuse, Senator Bigler, of Pennsylvania, 
said, that he was too young to expect, that my petition would pass, if he would read 
it ; but if I could move Senator Jefferson Davis to read my petition, he, Senator Big- 
ler, woufd 6wp[iort it, and then he expected, that it would pass. 

According to Senator Bigler's direction I went then to Senator Jefferson Davis, 
and endeavoured to move him to read my petition. I explained that the Govern- 
ment must understand our Mission fur the true Christian Union, Harmony and Peace 
of the United States; because otherwise Revolutions and Wars would destroy the 
country. The same he saw also in my petition to the Congress. But the more I 
urged him, to read it in Congress, the more he declined, and remarked, that the 
Senator from the State from which I came with my petition, should read it. This 
happened in the middle of February, 1860. I have not the date at hand, but it hap- 



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pened certainly about and perhaps on the same day, on which Jefferson Davis was in 
the next following year, 1861, inaugurated as President of the Seceded States. 

I have given in this Document some hints that iny volumes and pamphlets contain 
superabundance of testimonies of manifold languages, by which spirits from different 
spheres are speaking to mortal men; and that I have acquired so much Itnowledge of 
those languages, ns my Mission requires, when Spirits of our sphere use languages, 
by which we learn their economy and their plan as far as necessary in the great prepa- 
rations for the new Era. 

Jefferson Davis having been best qualified to represent the slave-holding powers at 
the approach of their abolition, had to meet with me exactly one year before his in- 
auguration to the Service, by which great lessons were to be given to the deluded 
Nations, that they must study our Heavenly Message, if they will be delivered from 
the infernal bondage and become \rn]y happy in this and partakers of eternal life. 
For his inauguration the most suitable day was appointed, as the most striking tes- 
timonj', that Jefferson Davis as well as Abraham Lincoln, both have been wonder- 
fully exhibited as extraordinary witnesses of our Divine Mission for the abolition of 
all kinds of slavery. One would not have been sufficient ; but two grinding stones 
were required to produce the means for our use to show lo Nations, in convenient 
time, the folly to expect salvation from their idols. 

I have mentioned in this Epistle, the solf^mn initiation, by Heavenly Agents, into 
this my Ministry, on the 18th February, 18.^8. The grand preparations to and the 
memorable events during that initiation — for which I was entranced by Heavenly 
Agents in the presence of the 144 witnesses who have been mentioned in this Epistle, 
and was initiated for this Ministry — have been circumstantially exjilained in my first 
three volumes, published from A. D. 1838 to 1840, and the substance of memorable 
events at that initiation was then repeated in my Jater publications and will be given 
in the volume for which I am preparing readers of this Epistle. I look more or less 
in newsjiapers as opportunity is given during mv moving from one to other ])laces, 
and I recollect to have seen the 18th day of February, 1861, as the day of Jeff. 
Davis' Inauguration. I saw that day in several papers; but I recollect to have seen 
in a publication, one of the next day's to that day, as the day of his inauguration, 
and I thought that there was a mistake. There are all kinds of mistakes which con- 
ceal important truths in these mysterious movements. 

The admirable correspondence, not only in the day of Jeff. Davis' Inauguration, 
but also in other Memorable Events of the Seceded Administration, with Memorable 
events in our Heavenly Mission, is a continuous testimony of the execution of Divine 
Judgments on account of the apostasy from the eternal Laws, according to which 
men are bound to act, and of the obduracy at all our warnings. On that same twenty- 
third anniversary of my initiation to this Mission, on which the Slave-holding In- 
auguration for the continuation of the abominations of Babylon took place, several 
compositors were setting in type our great " Proclamation of the True Union of all 
States." Copies were then ready that I started on the 20th for Harrisburg, Pa., and 
was preparing there to meet on the 22d February, 1861, or on Washington's birth- 
da}', with President Lincoln. If I had not been prevented from mj- meeting with 
him, and if he had heard the Heavenly Message, expressed in our Proclamation, which 
I was anxious to inculcate and explain him also personally, the Millennium had com- 
menced with his Administration. But all th*t I have done by virtue of my Mission, 
has been done for the development of the real condition of the country. 

After manifold preceding trials to reach the Government, at length, opportunity 
was given to send a parcel of my Documents by Hon. Reverdy Johnson to President 
Lincoln, the same time as he carried. May 1, 1861, Dispatches from the Governor of 
Maryland to him. But when my Documents have not been used to proclaim the 
Millennium, I was ordered by my Heavenly Master to start for the Seceded States, 
and try to reach in one or other way their Government, and to show them not to 
fight but to publish my manuscript, which I have offered to the Government of the 
United States to publish and spread it and commence the Millennium. If that manu- 
script had been published either by the Government of the United or of the Seceded 
States, and spread by the means which could have been used by the Government, the 
fighting spirit would have been checked and the real Union of all States commenced. 

The order of my Heavenly Master to start for the Seceded States and endeavour to 
open there the way for the beginning of the Millennium, was very dangerous accord- 
ing to the human views. I was regarded by many to be a spy sent by Lincoln's 
government, and I was threatened to be hung on the nearest tree. In this Supplement 
there is no room to mention the manifold strange events which occurred at my appli- 
cations to slaveholding Clergymen and others, to move them to assist me in my 
Heavenly Mission to deter the Government of the Seceded States from fighting, and 
to inspire them to study the credentials of our Mission and proclaim the Millennium. 
But clergymen and others to whom I have applied, were drawn oy their warlike 
spirits in other directions. One clergyman in Richmond, when he was compelled to 
confess, that what I had told him at my visit of that city before the outbreak of the 
war, has been fulfilled, urged me, that I, myself, must go to President Jeff. Davis and 



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explain to him my Mission ; and he gave me a writing with which I got free passage 
in the cars. 

I reached at length President Jefferson Davis, in Montgomery, State of Alabama, 
a week before Pentecost, 1861. My meeting with him in February, 1860, at Wash- 
ington, was a great preparation for my meeting with him in Montgomery. I have 
published how I was brought to him in Washington by the direction of Senator Big- 
ler, and took some copies of that publication with me. And when they thought that 
I was a spy, I have shown that publication and explained that my mission to Presi- 
dent Jeff. Davis was by Heavenly inspiration for the benefit of the country. He re- 
collected well, that I endeavored to move him for action to inspire the Congress at 
Washington, in February, 18G0, for the beginning of the Millennium. It having been 
neglected there, I persuaded him that he promised at length to read in the approach- 
ing night, my docutuent, preparatory to what was farther to be communicated to him 
to move him to apply all means in his power for publishing and spreading what was 
providentially prepared and explained by my instrumentality, to prevent destruction 
of human life and property and to commence the promised New Era of Harmony and 
Peace. 

I met him on the followinjr day, and I understood, from my conversation with him, 
that he had read my document, but had not digested its contents. Others having 
been waiting I felt that that time was not suitable for explanations of what was ne- 
cessary to draw him on our True Republican and True Christian Platform, and I 
thought that I should endeavour to find him alone. But I could not find such an 
opportunity during that week, in which I applied also to Clergymen and others to 
prepare them to assist me to reach the Government. But Demons of War distracted 
them, that they did not pay attention to our Heavenly Message. At length I came 
on Saturday evening again in the house of the President, and found him alone, and 
endeavoured to explain to him, that, after having been engaged during the week with 
other business, next day, which was Smday, (but I did not tell him that it was Sun- 
day of Pentecost,) was the most suitable day for the most urgent occupation, in 
which I would read, and when necessary, explain to him a manuscript, which should 
have been published and spread in all States of North America and elsewhere, by all 
means which could be applied for the beginning of Christ's Peaceable Reign. On 
that evening, Saturday before Pentecost, the Demon of Destruction was compelled to 
give way to our Spirit, by whom the President was moved to tell me that I should 
come next day at 9 o'clock, A. M. to his house. 

At my arrival on that Festival, at the appointed hour, at his residence, (that day 
being a warm day all the windows and doors were open,) I found two men with him 
in the pa'lour, and I thought while I observed them from afar, that they had some ur- 
gent war business to discuss. At length he was alone, about 10 o'clock, — when I 
comnienced to explain that nothing could be of more importance for him and for the 
country, and nothing so suitable tor the celebration of the Sabbath, (I did not men- 
tion that that Sabbath was the Festival of Pentecost,) as to spend that Sunday with 
me, and study with me the manuscript for a pamphlet, and to do then what the Spi- 
rit might suggest to be accomplished for Union of all States in Christ's Peaceable 
Reign. He did hear me scarcely five minutes, when the Legion by whom he was pos- 
sessed, was stirred up and commenced to move his whole body, change his face, turn 
his eyes, while his hand was grasping his watch, and when his eyes were turned to- 
wards it, he jumped on his feet, and muttering that there was no more time, he shew- 
ed with his hand and threatening look, that I should leave quickly his house, while 
he was running up stairs. 

I understood the mystery, that our Leaders would not interfere, and that they had 
sent me into the Seceded States to learn many things which I had not expected to 
hear and to see, and that that was not our but the Pentecost of Jefferson Davis and 
his clergy, the Feast of the Legion of Demons for destruction of the human life and 
property, and I supposed that the Legion carried him from me into his church to fas- 
tea him in his bloody work, while those whose most urgent duty was to move him 
and the Congress of the Seceded States for our Heavenly Mission, were assisting 
them in that work. I was told in which church he worshipped, and I went from his 
residence to the same church, and heard a very miserable sermon, in which nothing 
was said of what Jefferson Davis and all hearers would have need most. 

When on the Feast of Pentecost, the Legion by whom he was possessed, carried 
him from me in great anger, that he was tormented in my presence, I understood that 
I should not molest him any more; but I thought that it would be proper to make a 
trial to prepare the clergyman whose sermon I heard on the Feast of Pentecost, to 
show to the President, that his most urgent duty was to study my Heavenly Message. 
But the Minister excused himself with not having time to study my Message; because 
be had to go in a Fort and administer the Sacrament to the Soldiers. 

It is to be understood that every hint I give, would need long interpretations, and 
if I would give a complete interpretation of all hints given in this circular, it would 
require many volumes. But 1 mention only as much, as may suffice to inspire 
searchers after truth with a sincere desire and earnest determination to study the vol- 



nrae for which I am preparing Readers of these paces. When I could not move 
Clergymen to assist me to convert the Government of Montgomery to our Message of 
Peace, nor President Jefferson Davis to assist me to convert his Congress, I expected 
to find some Members of the Congress ot Slaveholders to comprehend my explana- 
tion that their proceedings were for the ruiu of the country, and that nothing else 
except our Heavenly Message could save them from the depth of misery into which 
they were running. But when I commenced to stir up the Vice-President and some 
others in the Congress at Montgomery to study our Heavenly Message of Peace and 
to draw the Government on our Platform, I heard soon, that they resolved to trans- 
locate their Government, and that they were hurrying to start directly for Richmond. 
Then I understood that I was sent to Montgomery' to try there the Spirits and lo learn 
many things to give most solemn warnings to the Slaveholding Government, that 
they cannot excuse themselves, that they were left without having been exhorted and 
admonished, that they were running into destruction, while we endeavored to show 
them the way into salvation. 

When Jefferson Davis and bis Body turned towards Richmond, I turned in my 
Heavenly Mission towards Nashville, while the Government aud People of Tennessee 
were most zealously preparing for Secession. You will read in the volume for which 
this circular is a preparation, the substance of my experience at that my visit to 
Nashville and then during my journey through Kentucky, while I was endeavoring 
to draw Slaveholders upon our true Christian or true Republican Platform, and how 
everywhere the Apocalyptical Dragon, the Spirit of delusion and destruction, was 
compelled to deliver into our hands extraordinary testimonies that his time did not 
yet arrive to give up his Dominion, because people were too much attached to wor- 
ship him. Therefore it was necessary for them to be more scourged to become at 
length sober to learn to know the true Christ, made manifest by virtue of our Mission 
to make Nations really happy in this life and in all eternity ; but the worship ol the 
Dragon and his armies ruins Nations in this life and draws them after their de[iair 
ture into the second death, about which you will receive the necessary disclosures in 
the volume. 

That all might know where to take their refuge to be delivered from misery and 
second death and become partakers of eternal life, wonders and signs testifying our 
Divine Mission, are given everywhere in manifold ways, so that when we give the 
disclosure, also those who became very materialistic, may be awakened from their 
spiritual death and easily comprehend that we have superabundance of testimony for 
our Heavenly Mission. President Abraham Lincoln as well as Jefferson Davis, both 
became strong Mediums of Spirit manifestations, as the memorable events testify, 
which occurred since their collision with our Mission. Our Divine Master and His 
Heavenly Armies were so controlling their proceedings, that memorable events in the 
terrible Civil War occurred according to our prophetical calendar in admirable cor- 
respondence with what I was doing according to the directions of my Master, as we 
Lave given in this Epistle as many specimens as room did allow; otherwise would 
have been necessary to write volumes. But hurrying to a close we remark only that 
Jefferson Davis' Inauguration to the Presidential Chair of the Slaveholding Confed- 
eracy on the 18th day of February-, 1861, ( on the 23rd anniversary of my initiation 
on the 18th February, 18.38, to my present Heavenly Mission,) was only provisional, 
a preparation to his definitive Inauguration to the Presidential term, 1 think, of six 
years ; because there are too many events to keep all that we read, in memory. And 
that Inauguration was celebrated in Richmond on the 22ud day of February, 1862, 
on Washington's birthday, or, on the first anniversary of the remarkable day, on 
which, if 1 had not been impeded, I would have spoken with President Abraham 
Lincoln, and would have added some private communications for his use to what 
has been published in our ''Proclamation of the True Union of all Sates of North 
America," &c. Here is no room to explain, how the power of darkness had impe- 
ded, that we did not receive assistance from the Governor nor from the Legislature 
of Pennsylvania , although we have endeavored to reach both to assist us to procure 
my personal interview with President Lincoln on the 22nd February, 1861. Having 
been impeded to reach him, I wrote on that day, what I thought proper, and added 
to our printed proclamation and sent it by the post-office of Harrisburg to President 
Lincoln. But he was not accustomed to read, and his Secretaries were not qualified 
to appreciate so great things as have been sent to him by virtue of our Heavenly Mis- 
sion. If those documents had been duly appreciated and it had been done, what was 
required in them, the Seceded States had returned, and the Millennium had commen- 
ced with power in the year 1861, and Jtfferson Davis aud his assistants had become 
zealous supporters of the glorious Union in Christ's Peaceable Reign, or in the Uni- 
versal Republic of Truth and Righteousness, and it had commenced to be established 
in all States of North America before the 22d of February, 1862. But besides others 
also the five hundred gentlemen in the highest and high ranks to whom our "Procla- 
mation" was sent, have been so detained by other occupations, that not one ol them 
did study it so as to have shown practically that he had comprehended it. 

When nothing what was done by virtue of our Mission, was regarded, at length 



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the Civil War commenced, and the Powers of Darkness continued the terrible work, 
and Jefferson Davis was solemnly inaugurated to his definitive administration, on 
Wasliinotou's Birth-daj^, February 22d, 1862, that is, to his mission of destruction, 
which lie coniinued, till he received at the right moment and at the right place, the 
telef;raphic dispatch from General Lee, that he could not longer defend the capital of 
the slave-holding government. 

We have given in this document as many hints as are sufficient for attentive read- 
ers to be convinced, that Jefferson Davis was a very strong Medium of the Infernal 
Legion, who are compelled to give testimony by their Mediums to our Mission, as 
well as Heavenly armies, give direct testimony by those who are prepared for their 
influence. Mark well, that when to Jefferson Davis, in his parlour at Montgomery, on 
the Feast of Pentecost, the last most striking opportunity was offered by our instru- 
mentalitv to be converted from his Master of War to our Prince of Peace, he was seiz- 
ed most powerfully by his Infernal Master and was carried into his church of Baby- 
lon, as the most secure asylum for the support of abominations, which were the 
source of the physical, inteflectual and moral oppression and destruction, by which 
mankind have been cursed and continue to be cursed, till the curse will be taken from 
them, when they will receive and put in operation our Heavenly Message, by which 
superabundance of physical, intellectual and moral blessings will be spread amongst 
all Nations. 

• Mark well, that the telegraphic dispatch from General Lee, in which he announced 
that he was not able to defend any longer Richmond, the Capital of the Slaveholding 
Government, was also received by Jefferson Davis, while he was in the church. The 
President of the Slaveholding abominations understood that he could not be saved in 
his church, and he tried to escape the capture by flight. But as he was before that 
dispatch, under the cover of great darkness, fastened to Richmond, in the same dark- 
ness was he involved during his flight, till he was captured, the right time and un- 
der the right circumstances, as well as also all preceding memorable events of his 
Presidential administration took place according to our prophetical calendar and dif- 
ferent Spirit languages, which our Heavenly Directors use, to be comprehended by 
us, and to draw by our mediumship Rulers and Nations into the glorious Resurrec- 
tion to become partakers of the real happiness in this life and in all eternity. Not 
being room to enter into any exjjlanation of the given hints, we must add for instruc- 
tion of the Government and citizens of the United States some highly important dis- 
closures to make the right use of the captured principal Rebels against God and his 
Christ, that their capture might not be for the ruin but for the restoration of the true 
Republican Government, and for Harmony and Peace of Nations. 

1 have heard much talking, and many ask my opinion as to what should be done 
with Jefferson Davis, for the true welfare of this Republic? "Hang him ! hang him 
by the neck, till he is dead," is the cry of many. 

Every sober searcher after truth will agree with me, that if there is transgression 
of just and righteous laws of the country, the punishment of the transj^ressor to be 
reasonable, must be for the common welfare of the country. Out of the evil some 
good must emanate. But it is not only a folly but a crime, to apply any punish- 
ment, which would not be for the benefit but for the ruin of the country. Those 
who have understood the preceding pages, are convinced, that I belong to the Heav- 
enly Sphere or Society, from which I am looking into the lower and lowest spheres 
of Spiritual existence. From this sphere we see, how by violent death of those who 
are not prepared for a high sphere, the infernal regions are filled with beings who in- 
fluence their congenial friends yet living in mortal bodies with their hurtful inclina- 
tions and animal passions. The better the Spirit world, as it is disclosed by virtue 
of our Mission, will be understood, the more this earth will be cleansed from crirnes 
and abominations- Each individual carries into the Spirit world the character, which 
he or she has acquired through his Or her lite time. And the stronger the animal pas- 
sion of a man or woman was, the greater influence he or she exercised upon others 
to attain a certain object, while in his or her mortal body, the stronger is his or her 
animal passion in the Spirit world, and the greater also his control upon other spirits 
who belong to his or her sphere, and are weaker than he or she is. 

On this account, and for many other reasons, upon which to touch here is no room, 
we would never advise any government to kill, in any way, any criminal, even in 
case his crime should be most evident, and also those who would procure his or her 
killing, would be entirely free from similar crimes. Instead of killing a man, the 
condemnation into such a penitentiary in which he would be bound to hard labour 
proportionate to his physical strength and other circumstances, and would get also 
the best opportunity to change his bad character and be continuously supported to be 
truly converted, and to grow in knowledge of religious truth and virtue, would be 
beneficial for him or her to get greater opportunity to expiate his crimes and benefit 
the community. I will mention here, as briefly as possible, only one case: 

When John Brown, the great Abolition Instigator to rebellion, and his colleagues, 
had been caught and brought into the Charleston jail of Virginia, and sentenced to 
be hung, I wrote a long Epistle to Governor Wise of Virginia, and urged upon him 



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to publish it, and call the Representatives of that State to a Convention, in which 
my manuscript showing the credentials of our Heavenly Mission, and how to com- 
mence the Millennium, would be read and explained, as far as necessary, to inspire 
them for action. And as soon as the Convention would comprehend our Mission and 
unite with us in proclaiminp; Christ's Peaceable Reign, I would give to John Brown 
and his accom()lices lessons in the jail, in the expectation that they would soon com- 
prehend our Mission. In the meantime, I would assist the Convention in proclaiming: 
in and from the State of Virginia, what would be required for the commencement of 
Christ's Peaceable Reign on Earth. And then I would take those who would be in 
the jail sufficiently prepared for our Mission, with me tor Europe, to assist us to pre- 
pare Abolitionists in Europe; and with their assistance, others, to spread the glorious 
news, that all Governments might hear them, and become the Government of our 
Lord and his Christ. I assured in said Epistle Governor Wise and all citizens of the 
State of Virginia, that, if they would accept my jiroposition, the greatest good would 
originate, not only for the State of Virginia but also for other States and for all Na- 
tions ; but if they would hang the deceived culprits, John Brown and his accomplices, 
the departed John Brown would arouse in the Spirit World hosts of departed Aboli- 
tionists to inspire their Mediums for destruction of their opposition; and Spirits of 
the opposite party would act upon their Mediums to kindle the most tremendous 
Civil War. 

Governor Wise became such a fool that he could not appreciate the most important • 
document, which was ever received by any Governor, and the ordinary course for 
destruction of human life and property continued, till the most tremendous Civil 
War consumed an immense amount of it, and many rich people and such as were 
provided for their living, have been partly killed, partly reduced to extreme poverty, 
approaching to starvation, while many starved already or will starve. And others 
increased their riches by war, and such as were j)Oor, became rich, while the whole 
countr}- has t)een plunged in such a debt that most people, when they hear pronoun- 
ced the sum, are not able to conceive a correct idea of it ; and when we try to con- 
ceive the smallest amount taken in calculation, (while other calculations affirm that 
it is much larger,) we are not able to conceive how it could be paid in the ordinary 
course of affairs, while there are manifold influences, which would certainly change 
the course in worse, if people would not hear the voice of the Heavenly Mission: 
"Come out of Babylon, not to be partakers of her plagues." 

From Famine, Pestilence and War, deliver us, Lord ! is a common prayer of 
many; and we teach how the mock prayers should be changed in real prayers, by 
doing what our Master shows b}' virtue of our Mission to remove the scourge, for 
which, as we see by looking into human affairs, great preparations are going on in 
the countries, in which the scourge of war and the calamities which are connected 
with it, have not yet made such devastation as in the Seceded States. There is no 
room here for explanation of matters which remain mysteries to such people as are 
not able to look so dee]) into the Spirit world as we look. We may give some light 
on this subject to those who affirm that they love Jesus. 

Although Jesus had many disciples during his ministry, their faith was so feeble 
that the stiongest of his Apostles denied hira during his suffering. But after his 
death, when his disciples received sufficient testimony that he was living, by his own 
and the inspiration of those departed spirits who were aroused by his operation, his 
disciples were awakened to a new life, and by their exertions and co-operation of the 
Holy Ghost, whom as well as the true Jesus Christ, as he is made manifest in our Mis- 
sion, you will learn to know in the volume for which we are preparing readers of this 
pamphlet, the grand work of preparations continued, till matters have been so far 
developed in our Mission that Christ's Peaceable Reign will commence in its grand- 
eur. I may remain yet in this body and see the great movements for its establish- 
ment, although I have advanced in my age so far that I have become mature for de- 
parture, I will continue after my departure m}' work with power. But if you will 
become partakers of our glorious work, you must act with us without delay that you 
might not come too late to prevent enormous destruction of human life and properly 
in those countries which have not been visited in the last Civil War. 

You have caught the Principals of those, by whom devastation might have been 
spread in many countries which have not yet been visited with slaughtering of men 
in wholesale. If you make them free by killing their bodies, they will arouse those 
departed for destruction of their enemies, who are now comparatively quiet, to in- 
spire their Mediums for new Revolutions and Wars. But if you entrust them to our 
care, while they are well secured by you in prison, to receive in prison lessons by us 
in the presence of such of your officers, who will understand best this pamphlet and 
be convinced of our Divine Mission, and ready to learn what we are ready to explain 
to the prisoners, and to assist us to make the prisoners comprehend our lessons, you 
will receive the most excellent fruits of our Heavenly Mission. The better the prison- 
ers will comprehend and digest our lessons, the more the Legions by whom they are 
possesed, will be compelled to remove, and the nearer they will be to receive inspiration 
from our sphere by which they will become at length bo strengthened, that not only 



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myself, but also yonr officers, (in whose presence I require, by virtue of my Mission, to 
giVe lessons to Jefferson Davis and those who are most intimately connected with 
him,) will be fully convinced of their conversion and of their capability to give me 
great support to draw Governments of Earo[ie from their monarchical to our true 
Republican, that is, true Christian ground. After sufficient proof that they have 
been truly converted and prepared to be powerful Apostles of the New Era, you will 
send them with me in one of the steamboats of your Government to Europe, in our 
grand mission for Christ's Peaceable Reign on earth, or, for the Universal Republic 
of Truth and Righteousness. 

This is the proposition which I am permitted by my Leaders to offer for the benefit 
of the American and other Nations. The American Nation have destroyed plenty of 
people by shootingr, hanging, or killing them in manifold other wavs, when th^y 
were not prepared to enter into eternal life, but became infernal furies, by whom men 
were instigated to produce the Civil War. But there was none of them so powerful 
as Jefferson Davis would be, if you would kill him, for inspiring the warklike spirits 
of his party for desolating the States which have not yet been desolated by Civil 
War, although there is already plenty of moral and physical pestilence, which has 
been spread from the places of war into the States of North America as well as into 
other countries. But it is yet so concealed that it is not seen except from our Plat- 
form, from which remedy is offered to you for purification of the country. 

We have concentrated in this Epistle as much as we expect to be sufficient to awa- 
ken also such as are immersed into a very deep sleep, to become our fellow labourers 
to make according to the Divine Plan, shown in our Mission, the poor rich, and the 
rich truly happy, by applying their riches as they must be applied by those who 
are regarded to be very rich, although they are really very poor and very miserable 
wretches, till they will be truly converted into really rich and happy beings, blessed 
by our God and working for external life, by applying the perishable riches according 
to his will made known by virtue of our Mission to commence with power Christ's 
Peaceable Reign, for which I am labouring with great patience as your sincere broth- 
er and servant for the redemption of the oppressed and bleeding humanity. 

T conclude this Epistle with a highly important warning to all those who have ac- 
quired property by speculation with religion and war, although we have given al- 
read}' all kinds of warnings. 

A teacher had retired in a hermitage to chop during six days every week, one half 
of his time, wood for his living, and the other half he studied the Bible in hopes to 
find therein the way to Heaven. At length one of our Missionaries met with that 
hermit and assured him that by studying my books he would loarn to_ understand 
many thiu^js in the Bible, the interpretation of which he could not find in any com- 
mentary. Then he studied my books. And the deeper he studied them, the more 
he was convinced that the Missionary spoke truth. And then he himself preached 
our Message by writing letters to his friends from his hermitage. And when I need- 
ed his assistance, he came to assist me. When matters did not arrive to maturity to 
start on Cumberland Mountain of Tennessee, a provisional centre for our Peace Union, 
I found in Illinois a suitable place for it, and wrote to that hermit, that he should 
come and assist me in starting a Peace-Union settlement. After having received ray let- 
ter he started; but on his way to meet with me in Illinois, he was pushed in a night from 
a steamboat into the Ohio river by a discijile of the speculating Pharisees. Our 
Leaders have permitted the atrocious assassination, because there was not yet time to 
start our Peace-Union center, and our hermit could do much more for our work in 
the Spirit world than he could do in his outward body ; and the Heavenly Supreme 
Court have sent to me several messages by his instrumentality. I mention here only 
the following Message. 

When the Governor of Massachusetts appointed a day for hanging Professor John 
Webster, I was printing in Pittsburg, Pa., a pamphlet in which a Convention was 
appointed for examining the credentials for our Heavenly Mission to establish Christ's 
Peaceable Reign on earth. The composition of said pamphlet was in the printing 
office nearly finished, when that Holy Martyr brought me a Message, that 1 should 
testify in that same pamphlet, that there was at the Government of the United States 
a secret machination so pernicious to the country that its originators deserved rather 
to be hung by the neck than Professor Webster. Therefore they should delay that 
machination at the Government, as well as the hanging of Professor Webster, and 
the President and the Congress at Washington, as well as the Governor of Massachu- 
setts should send delegates to our Convention and learn what was required for the 
true welfare of the country. 

I did not know what the secret machination in Washington was, and have pub- 
lished what was delivered to me by the Holy Martyr,' in that small pamphlet, copies 
of which I sent to President Fillmore and to the principal Abolitionists in the Sen- 
ate and in the House of Congress in Washington, in the supposition that they will 
understand their most urgent duty to make known to Congress the contents of my 
pamphlet, copies of which I had also sent to the Governor of Massachusetts and some 
others in Boston and Cambridge. But those in Massachusetts did not comprehend 



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onr Divine Mission, although we have concentrated sufficient testimonies of it also in 
said small pamphlet, and they had hurried to hang Professor Webster on the ap- 
pointed day ; and President Fillmore and the Abolitionists at Congress were as care- 
less in regard to the Heavenly warning, given in said pamphlet, as those in Massa- 
chusetts, and instead of having studied and made known its contents to Congress, 
President Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Law on the same day of September, 1850, 
on which in August of the same year our pamphlet, "Important Disclosures," has 
been sent to him, showing what his most important duty was for the welfare of the 
country. And on the same day on which delegates should have appeared in our 
Convention, at Pittsburg, in the daily newspapers of thai city " The Fugitive Slave 
Law" appeared, which created such a confusion in that city, that all forgot to at- 
tend our Convention. 

Professor Webster, who was very skillful in squandering much property, and in 
deluding and killing the rich, during his life time, to be able to live in a high style, 
has been exhibited to me after his death, in his mad eagerness to be a Leader of De- 
stroying Demons, to possess their mediums and instigate them for killing the rich. — 
The grentest animal passion was awakened amongst the Demons of New England and 
their mediums, to kill, in the first place, the rich slaveholders. But I assure you, 
that after the ruin of the slaveholders there is a tremendous coalition of Spirits of the 
degraded destitute, poor and oppressed, who have died or have been killed in their 
degr.uled condition, to insjiire their mediums to kill the rich in general, and particu- 
larly those who have acquired property by the blood of their fellow-men. 

I su[)[)ose we h;ive concentrated also in this Encyclic Epistle, a sufficient amount 
of testimony for the Rich as well as the Poor to unite with us for the glorious work 
to make those in mortal bodies truly happy, and to pacify also the departed, and to 
prepare those who may be reached by their congenial friends who are learning our 
Heavenly Message to conform their actions to it, and to con»municate it to their de- 
parted friends, for a glorious Resurrection and Ascension into our community. I con- 
clude this pamphlet with the following remark: 

There are many speculators who have found out by their calculations, that if there 
would be no pestilence, famine and war and manifold other methods to shorten the 
lives of men, the earth would be eventually overpeopled. This would be also, accord- 
to my calculation, the case if men would continue to live in as low a condition as 
that of the swine, and abuse their intellectual and moral faculties for the gratification 
of their carnal lusts and other animal passions. But when men and women will be 
elevated on the true christian ground, and will live according to the Heavenly Plan 
the substance of which has been printed in the book, "Secret Enemies of true Repub- 
licanism," and the principal points will be repeated in the next volume, the earth 
will never be overpeopled, but will be eventually thickly settled by a Holy people, 
one family of which is of much more worth, than a large city of degraded human 
beings. 

Digest well all that is said in this Epistle and act accordingly with your sincere 
Brother, 

ANDREW B. SMOLNIKAR, 



IMPORTANT SUPPLEMENT. 



By multitudes inspired for Republican Government, the three words: "Liberty, 
Equality and Fraternity," were often repeated, although few persons have penetrated 
into the true meaning of these words. Free Speech and Free Press I was the com- 
mon cry in this country. But since the commencement of ray Mission, A. D. 1838, 
I have experienced just the contrary. If places, in which people were assembled, 
had been tree to proclaim our Message of Peace; and if the press had been free to 
spread it in print — instead of the incalculable destruction of human life and property 
during the four years of Civil War, Real Union and Peace would have been estab- 
lished long before the war in the United States and spread over the globe. But money 
having been the Rule for the support of delusion. Money Masters had the power to 
establish and support pernicious societies, parties and sects, according to their lusts, 
for their damnable speculations. And Truth, which was offered in our Mission, was 
checked ; while delusion was spread by the falsely called Free Speech and Free Press. 

Republic — Respublica — public affair — must be for the common welfare of all. la 
the real Republic, Truth, which will make Nations free and lead them into eternal 
life, will be dev(4oped and supported; and delusion, which leads into bondage and 
destruction, will be e.'ftirpated. Liberty, Free Speech and Free Press — to develop and 
spread Truth for the common welfare, and to extirpate delusion, which is the basis of 
destruction of human life and property — must be established in the true Rej)ublic. 
This having been neglected, and our Mission, which shows how it will be realized, 
not having been regarded, we are preparing, in this pamphlet, readers for our next 
volume, in which, besides other things for the commencement of Christ's Peaceable 
Reign, or what is the same, for the Real Republic, also, the proceedings will be 
shown, by which Truth will be developed and error extirpated, and the true Frater- 
nity of the human race and such an equality will be restored, as to procure to each 
individual a chance and also the best assistance to be attracted, to develop, in the 
right manner, his intellectual and moral faculties and his physical strength, and to 
make the right use of them for the common welfare. 

I expected, at my last Mission to Washington, to reach some of the Heads at the Gov- 
ernment and show them their most important work to publish a large edition of 
this Encyclic Epistle, and to send copies of it to all Postmasters and inspire theiu to 
spread it as fast as possible. But after my arrival in that city, I experienced thnt my 
Master had sent me rather to learn many things to make use of them in proper time, 
than to teach what the Government should know to remove the curse and to spread 
blessings. I publish here as much of what I wrote at my last visit to that city as 
can be published in this form, to be used by all, who, by studying this pamphlet, 
will be inspired to move others for co-operation with us, that they might show par- 
ticularly to officers that their most urgent duty is to give alt others good example in 
studying and spreading our Message of Peace. In the first place, we copy here our 
last Epistle to President Andrew Johnson. 

Washington, June 23d, 1865. 

To His Excellency, Andrew Johnson, President of the United Slates of North 
America. 

Respected Sir : — After my arrival in this city on the 20th inst., I wrote on the 21st 
a letter directed to Secretary Seward, in the expectation to move him to prepare the 
way to your Excellency for our Heavenly Message; but when I would copy and send 
it to him, I heard that his wife died, not having heard before that she was sick, and 
last evening I read that he started with her remains for Auburn. Therefore, 1 copy 
here a portion of what I have prepared, but the death interposed, so that I did not 
send it to him. It reads as follows : 

^' Respected Sir : — I trust that our Heavenly Father had preserved your life, that 
you miglit become a partaker at the glorious work of His Grand Manifestation for 
the Introduction of the Millennium, about which there are all kinds of superstitious 
notions, but which will be, (as has been disclosed by virtue of our Mission in a num- 
ber of volumes and pamphlets since A. D. 1838,) the promised Universal Republic of 
Truth and Righteousness, Harmony and Peace, as you will be convinced after having 
comprehended the contents of the manuscript which is prepared for a pamphlet of 
about 32 pages in octavo, and the title of which reads : — [The title is on the title page 
of this pamphlet; and then the continuation of my letter to the President, reads : 

" This is the commencement of the lengthy letter which I have prepared hr Secre- 
tary Seward, and in which I have shown that he should have' opened the way for the 
circulation of our Heavenly Message already A, D. 1854. This not having been done, 
I wrote to move him now to inspireyou and others for co-operation in our glorious Mis- 
eion for Uaioa aad Peace of Nations. But he being burying the dead, I apply directlj 



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to your Excellency with the same assurance, which was expressed in my Document 
in which I have addressed at the commencement of the year 1861, the Senate and the 
House of Congress of the United States, that there is no other way except which is 
shown in our Mission, to cement the true Union in the Republic of the United Slates 
and establish real Peace and spread it over the globe. That address should have been 
read publicly in the Senate and in the House. But it was read only privately by you 
and some other members of the Congress of the United States. 

" After that I had no opportunity to converse with you. But at the commencement 
of your Presidential administration I have sent to you a lengthy letter and a printed 
prophecy, which was given at the end of the last century in reference to the United 
States and in reference to our Mission. In my letter to you I have given the key to 
understand said prophecy, this being for you of the utmost importance to know where 
to find the means for the real Republic and Peace ut Nations. I was e.^pecting an 
answer ; but not havmg received any, I came at length myself to this city, and offer 
to you the proposition, that you and your Secretary might spend on Sunday next, 
June 25th, 18G5, two hours and a half before and two hours and a half after noou 
with me, that your Secretary might read the manuscrijit with the above copied title 
for a pamphlet of about 32 pages, and I might give as much farther explanation as 
circumstances would require, that your Excellency might comprehend matters as we 
look into them; because I write as a Medium of Heavenly Directors, as you will be 
convinced, if you accept our proposition. And you may be assured that if you spend 
next Sunday ttve hours with me, this will be the most important celebration of a 
Lord's day for the welfare of the Americans aiid other Nations. 

I expect to find to morrow an answer to this letter at the Post Office of this city of 
WashiniTton. Your obedient servant in Christ, 

ANDREW B. SMOLNIKAR. 

The deeper you have studied the preceding pages, the more you are convinced that 
I am not my own Master but only a servant of my Heavenly Master, who controls 
also in the printing office the spirits of the i)rinters ; and by his calculation, not to 
waste paper, I must fill the space of the last form as far as convenient ; because I do 
not know also when composition runs towards the end, how much writing would 
be needed, and 1 thought that the " Encyclic Epistle" would fill nearly if not the 
whole last form. But those invisible agents, who are so wonderfully counting pages 
and lines of our writings, that although while writing I do not know the pages oa 
which peculiar mysteries would appear in print, I am after the appearance of the 
printed pages admiring the calculation according to our spirit language by numbers, 
according to which the principal mysteries are printed on pages having corresponding 
numbers with the mysteries to which they have reference. Whereas, our Master was 
pleased to let us publish our letter to President Johnson, his Iriends should regard it 
as a precious supplement to the Encyclic Epistle to draw the President as well as 
other officers on our true Republican and true Christian ground. 

Secretary Seward was mentioned in our Epistle to President Johnson ; and you 
■will read in our next volume, the substance ot Memorable Events, Signs and Won- 
ders which occurred A. D. 1854, while we were trying Spirits of all parties and 
sects in the Cabinet and in the Congress at Washington, and were particularly en- 
deavoring to move in the Senate Hon. Wm. H. Seward and in the House Hon. Gerrit 
Smith, to give us assistance in our Heavenly Mission to move the government for 
Harmony and Peace of Nati(ms. But Spirits of delusion and destruction had the 
power to keep those from studying our Heavenly Message who jhould have given us 
the strongest assistance in our Mission. 

On the 25th of the last month (June, 1865,) 1 was assured by a medium of the Ma- 
terialistic Spiritualism, that Chiet Justice Chase did return from a visit to the South- 
ern States. Then 1 wrote on the next day a letter and carried it to the door of his 
residence, with the intention to give him that and a copy of my letter to President 
Johnson, if I could have a chance to do so, and then to talk with him about the con- 
tents. But when an aged lady opened the door, she assured me that the Chief Jus- 
tice had not yet returned from his journey — and I retained the letter and started with 
the next train from Washington. I wished to publish the letter in this pamphlet, to 
stir up Chief Justice, and by his example, other judges, and by their co-operation the 
whole country to unite in our Mission. Not being room to publish the letter, we 
mention only that we intended, while writing, to inspire Chief Justice to move the 
President to appoint a time in which he would bring me to the President, that we 
might read together, and I would give farther explanations of what is required for 
the true Union and Peace ot the inhabitants of the United States. 1 hud m my letter 
reference to the year 1856, in which while Chief Justice Chase was Governor of Ohio, 
1 endeavored to move him to assist me to inspire the Legislature of Ohio for what 
was required in my address, that by a co-operation of the Legislature Chiist's Peace- 
able Reign might commence in that State. But when nobody would take interest in 
the great Mission, after the publication of that address to the Legislature of Ohio, and 
our Epistle to all Nations, in a pamphlet which appeared A. D. 1856, in Columbus, 
Ohio, while the Legislature was in session, at length the tremendous destruction of 



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human life and property, wbich was predicted on the top of the title pap;e of that 
pamphlet, was accomplished. I had o;reat hope, that Chief Justice Chase would com- 
prehend us now and co-operate powerfully with us to avert the second calamity, 
which was also predicted on the top of the title page of that pamphlet, to come even- 
tually, if it will not be averted by the means comprehended in our ilission. 

On my applications to those in high offices I heard often the remarks, that politics 
had nothing to do with religion. There is nothing more pernicious to the human 
race and nothing more contrary to the true Republic than such an abominable delu- 
sion. Religion has always been and will always be the guide of all politics. Irre- 
ligion and all kinds of delusion in religion, have produced all kinds of delusion in. 
politics. All revolutions and wars have their origin in irreligion and delusion and 
deception regarding religion. To establish the true Republic requires nothing les3 
than to establish Union in the true religion according to the true Republican method, 
which is shown in the volume for which this pamphlet is a preparation. By virtue 
of my -Mission I was since the appearance of my tirst volume which was published A. 
D. 1838, and contains sufficient testimonies of this Mission, endeavoring to reach 
those in high offices; because this is their most urgent duty to make use of every op- 
portunity to acquire true religion and to act accordingly, to be a blessing instead of 
being a curse to the human race. 

Whereas, in this pamphlet superabundance of facts are produced, from the whole 
chain of which is most evident to every attentive reader who has a sound mind to try 
the spirits, that the Spirit by whom I was prepared for and was directed in this Mis- 
sion is higher than the spirits are. by whom ecclesiastical and political heads are di- 
rected who did not care to study my publications, while they were urged to do so, 
but remained in apathy, or were endeavoring to hinder the circulation of our Mes- 
sage and to delude people in regard to our Heavenly Mission ; and whereas, while we 
were showing how to establish the true Republican Union and Peace, and spread it 
on the globe, they were preparing discord and destruction of human life and proper- 
ty. Therefore, 

Rcsolced, That those who by a careful perusal of this pamphlet will be convinced 
of our Heavenly Mission, are expected that they will show by their actions their con- 
viction, and endeavor to move as many as in their power for co-operation, that all 
that is required in this pamphlet might be done, and as many might attend our Con- 
vention, as are expected, with the required qualificatious, spoken of on the 15th page 
of this pamphlet. 

On the l;ith page our Convention is announced e.Kactly according to our Spirit 
language by numbers. All kinds of unexpected wonders occur in our Mission, also 
manifold wonders which were not observed in the Missions of our forerunners, and 
manifold such wonders as will remain perceivable with the outward senses of men 
through all future ages. We have given in the small compass of this pamphlet hints 
of different kinds of wonders; Pages and lines appeared in my preceding publica- 
tions, in adiuirable correspondence with documents, to which they have reference, 
and I see the same wonder in this pamphlet, after having received a copy of the first 
16 pages. I knew nothing about the Heavenly calculation, till I saw the pages as 
they appear from the press; and in this pamphlet 1 did not know till I had received 
the first proof sheets, the size of type which was used in the composition. And if I 
had been asked, wbich portion of my manuscript would suit best to be put on the 
15th page according to the Heavenl}- language by numbers, I had not been able to 
answer, although I understand this language as far as my Mission requires. But 
now, when I sve what my Master was pleased to order to tlie Spirits of lower spheres 
to set in type on that page, and to use for that purpose the right size type, I under- 
stand perfectly, that nothing in my manuscript was so suitable for that page than the 
portion of the appointment of the Convention, which appears there in reference to the 
documents which in our Mission have the same number. 

If you have not yet penetrated so deep into the mysteries of this pamphlet, you 
will learn in our Convention, that it is the grand Supper to which Christ invites 
those who, after having studied this pamphlet, will feel qualified for that Supper, and 
that he invites them b) his First born Son at the introduction of the Dispensation of 
the Fullness of Times. Ephes. 1: 10. This his Son, representing the whole family of 
Sons and Daughters, by whom the glorious dispensation is to be introduced, has in 
prophecies ditierent names. On the 12th page of this pamphlet "the Divine Comedy" 
is mentioned, and from the hints given there many readers could know that I had 
reference to Dante's Divine Comedy. He has in the 33d, or last Song of Purgatory, 
the great prophecy regarding the Five Hundred, Ten and Five xMessenger of God- 
that is, the Messenger of God, whose name is 515, in opposition to the name of the 
Representative of the Beast 666, Rev. xiii: 18. On the 5th page is the Catalogue of 
the 144 witnesses mentioned, the 90ih of whom has brought, instead of his own 
name the name of the Representative of the Beast, containing besides other mysteries of 
the Beast, also the number 666. But to obtain the number 666, we wrote the name 
with Greek letters, the Revelation having been written in the Greek language. My 
name, as it was pronounced by my parents and acquaintances, in my native town, 



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and exactly written, is Smolnkor, with short o and e, and the Greek letters of this' 
name give exactly the number 515, which, if added to the year 1321, in which Dante 
died, give the year 1836, at the expiration of which I was called by my Master to 
prepare for America. The call was connected with great Sijrns, which will be ex- 
plained in our Convention, as also Dante's prreat prophecy, and the prophecies which 
have been given, when by one prophet a letter was inserted into my name, and th. n 
by another prophet a letter was altered, that by this process two other tropical years 
in our Heavenly Mission have been prophesied. 

We have mentioned here so much as to draw also at the end of the pamphlet the 
attention of searchers after truth to our Convention, in which the fulfilment of Dante's 
prophecy and other prophecies to commence with power Christ's Peaceable Reign, 
will be shown . That Reign commences with the abolition of the four Beasts in the 
Tth chapter Daniels. On this account Christ's Peaceable Reign is considered as the 
5th Empire, which will be the Universal Republic of Truth and Righteousness. And 
on the 5th paga is the concentration of hints regarding the grand preparations for its 
realization. And on the 15th is the appointment of the Convention, which will be 
the belter attended, the deeper this pamphlet is understood. The number 15, when 
the whole number 515 could not be used, has reference to Dante's Prophecy, which 
has been as far fulfilled, as the Representative of Messengers is regarded. But many 
Messengers being necessary to accomplish the glorious work in said prophecy for 
Christ's Peaceable Reign, tlie worlc will commence with power, if tiiose who are 
called, will attend the Convention. 

On the 5th page is the catalogue of 144 witnesses mentioned. Amongst those wit- 
nesses are fifteen women, and their sex lias a peculiar interest in Dante's prophecy, 
regarding the Messenger of God with the number 515. His Mission is to strangle the 
Harlot, and the Giant who sins with the Harlot. The Giant is the Representative of 
the Beast, which is sutijugated by the Harlot, in the 17th chapter of Revelation. The 
number 16 is in the development of the mysteries of the Beast as remarkable as the 
numiierC66. And on the 16th page the testimonies are concentrated, by which is 
most evident how great the power of the Beast is ; that after my hard labour for many 
years in my Heavenly Jlission, our Peace-Union Hall is yet in the wilderness, and I 
invite to our Convention, as Christ invited his followers into the wilderness; because 
that is the most suitable place for the great Spiritual Supper. 

Heavenly wisdom was pleased to put in the 16th page, what was to be said to the 
women, that by them qualified men might be inspired to attend our Convention, and 
then to give to women all possible assistance to be delivered from the Dominion of 
the Beast and to celebrate the Women's Convention ; to become powerful Messengers 
for the abolition of the Dominion of the Beast and Introduction of Christ's Peace on 
Earth. 

Here is no room to explain why our Heavenly Directors, who take care that the 
publications of our Mission are printed in correspondence with the mysteries of our 
prophetical calendar, were pleased to engage compositors to commence to set in type 
this pamphlet, on Peter's Feast, June 29th, 1865 ; and on the 6ih day of the Octave 
of Peter's Feast, tlie 4th day of July, was the celebratiou of the American Indepen- 
dence, and then in the Octave of that Independence, the last part of this pam- 
phlet was set in type. You may muse upon this and other points, which we have 
mentioned but which to explain we have no room in this pamphlet. You will get 
the more light, the better you will be prepared in attending our Convention; tos[)ri ; i 
then the marvellous light in all quarters of the globe. Expecting to meet on the tirst 
day of September next, 1865, with Representatives from different States at the place 
specified on the 15th page, I am, your sincere brother, Andrew B. Smolnikar. Our 
direction before and during the appointed Convention is on the 17th page. 



Note. — If space permitted, I would write an Address particularly to those who, 
having been rich, became in this Civil War, poor. They should know, that it was 
the gre.uest benefit for me, that while I was a boy about nine years old, fire broke 
out at midnight in the next house to my bed-room, and we saved nothing. With 
our frame house all our properly was destroyed. And this aroused commiseration 
of those who had property, and they sent me to school, and my Master prepared me 
for the glorious Mission, to which, while all were invited, those should particularly 
imitate my example who became so destitute as I was at the mentioned fire, by which 
I was aroused to devote my life to the service of God, for my own and the welfare of 
my fellow-men. If they are truly converted to our Master and unite with us in the 
great Mission, and do what they are able to do for the circulation of our Messa^ie of 
Peace, \>y their earnest exertions, many who have riches, will be aroused to apply 
them for the common welfare. With the earnest prayer, that all might be united and 
act, each according to his ability, I am your fellow-laboufer for the redemption of 
oppressed and bleeding humanity. A. B. S. 



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